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From: edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: nslookup and IP addresses
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Date: 28 Nov 89 09:18:37 GMT
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In article <6027@lindy.Stanford.EDU> odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) writes:

  >	Can anyone tell me a reliable way to find the site name associated
  > with a given IP address?  Example:  say I have address 128.114.133.1 which
  > happens to be a local machine ssyx.ucsc.edu.

This is how I usually do it (I don't know if there are
easier ways):

	Set querytype=ptr, reverse the address and add ".in-addr.arpa",
	like this:

	% nslookup
	Server: ...
	Address: ....

	> set q=ptr
	> 1.133.114.128.in-addr.arpa

	1.133.114.128.in-addr.arpa      host name = ssyx.UCSC.EDU

	>



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