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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: traceroute hacking
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.060036.21126@Think.COM>
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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 91 06:00:36 GMT
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In article <#W#-G5K@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu writes:
> Has anybody hacked on traceroute to have it do a T_PTR query to the
>nameserver for any Internet address that fails the gethostbyaddr() call?

Don't hack traceroute, get a version of gethostbyaddr() that uses the
domain system.
-- 
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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