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From: thomas@uplog.se (Thomas Tornblom)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: name server
Message-ID: <THOMAS.90Sep10110602@uplog.uplog.se>
Date: 10 Sep 90 09:06:02 GMT
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In-Reply-To: TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET's message of 10 Sep 90 04:14:29 GMT

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?) ?

nslookup -query=ptr <ip-address reversed>.in-addr-arpa.
I.e:

For the host 192.16.142.80 the query would be:
nslookup -query=ptr 80.142.16.192..in-addr-arpa.
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