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- From: splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy)
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- Subject: Re: Needle in a hay stack - nslookup
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 22:52:40 GMT
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- Mike Sidler (sidler@smurf.ssc.gov) wrote:
- > Given just a hostname, I'm trying to find its Internet address. I know that
- > I could do this manually by getting a list of all the domainnames in North America
- > and one by one grep nslookup for the hostname. (Haven't been able to get a list
- > of domainnames yet). However, I'm hoping there is a much easier way of doing this.
- > I'm trying to get the Internet address so I can email this person. But I don't have
- > his phone number or address, only the name of his machine!
- >
- When you say hostname, I assume you mean just the hostname without the domain
- part of it. You could try 'netfind', which allows you to search for hosts and
- users based on general information. Telnet to bruno.cs.colorado.edu and
- login as netfind. Follow the instructions.
-
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- Seng-Poh Lee <splee@pd.org>
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