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From: mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: name server
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Date: 10 Sep 90 08:55:16 GMT
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In article <90252.231430TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET> TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III) writes:
>Does anyone know how to obtain the hostname of a machine given the IP
>address using a name server (the nslookup feature of unix?) ?

To find the hostname for IP address 1.2.3.4:

% nslookup

> set type=ptr

> 4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa


will do the trick...  Assuming the .in-addr.arpa tables have been set
up appropriately...