name server

[Thomas Tornblom]

In article <90252.231430TOMIII at MTUS5.BITNET> TOMIII at 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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