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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Hostname from Internet address?
Message-ID: <1990Dec25.160148.4035@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 25 Dec 90 16:01:48 GMT
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In article <1990Dec25.070328.4413@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> raja@cpswh.cps.msu.edu writes:
>
>about the other way round?  Given an internet
>address (e.g. 1.2.3.4), how would one find the 
>complete hostname?
>
  The library function gethostbyaddr() is provided for this purpose.  But
if you want to use 'nslookup', set type=PTR, then resolve the address
4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa.

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