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- From: drich@sandman.lerc.nasa.gov (Daniel Rich)
- Subject: Re: system names from IP
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.171052.10295@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
- References: <1992Dec14.172453.26933@den.mmc.com> <hofmann.724433734@nova>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:10:52 GMT
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- In article <hofmann.724433734@nova> hofmann@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Bernhard Hofmann) writes:
- >beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck) writes:
- >>Has anyone out there ever tried to resolve a system name
- >>from an IP number?
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- >Have a look at the man page of gethostbyaddr. A simple C code should
- >do the job.
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- Or, since this is an SGI group, you can type:
- nslookup -type=PTR ipaddress
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- For example, for uunet, type:
- nslookup -type=PTR 137.39.1.2
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