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From: mcgough@wrdis01.af.mil (Jeffrey B. McGough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding out domain name from IP number with nslookup. How?
Message-ID: <191@wrdis01.af.mil>
Date: 19 Feb 91 03:26:14 GMT
References: <4800@gdc.portal.com>
Organization: 1926CCSG Robins AFB
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In article <4800@gdc.portal.com> lee@gdc.portal.com (Seng-Poh Lee, Gen DataComm, +1 203 758-1811) writes:
>A while back I saw something posted regarding how to find out  a domain
>name based on the IP number, using nslookup. It had something to do with
>some option within nslookup but I don't remember what it was.
>
Lets say you are looking for 26.6.0.83 (thats me)

You get into nslookup and type the following

set type=any

then
83.0.6.26.in-addr.arpa

and you should then get the host.domain info....

or you type
set type=PTR
then 83.0.6.26.in-addr.arpa
and you should then get the host.domain info....


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