name server
karl_kleinpaste at cis.ohio-state.edu
karl_kleinpaste at cis.ohio-state.edu
Tue Sep 11 00:46:39 AEST 1990
tomiii at mtus5.bitnet 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?) ?
host(1) is better for 99+% of the usual queries you want to make,
including automatic in-addr.arpa queries when given a dotted quad, no
need to do special "query=ptr" things.
| [78] [10:41am] giza:/n/giza/0/karl> host 128.146.8.60
| Name: tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
| Address: 128.146.8.60
| Aliases:
|
| [79] [10:42am] giza:/n/giza/0/karl> host 128.146.0.0
| Name: net.ohio-state.edu
| Address: 128.146.0.0
| Aliases:
|
| [80] [10:42am] giza:/n/giza/0/karl> host -a tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.
| tut.cis.ohio-state.edu 1395 IN A 128.146.8.60
| tut.cis.ohio-state.edu 86400 IN HINFO pyramid-98x unix
| tut.cis.ohio-state.edu 86400 IN MX 100 tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
| tut.cis.ohio-state.edu 86400 IN WKS 128.146.8.60 udp 42 tftp sunrpc
| tut.cis.ohio-state.edu 86400 IN WKS 128.146.8.60 tcp ftp telnet smtp nameserver sunrpc
| Additional information:
| tut.cis.ohio-state.edu 1395 IN A 128.146.8.60
You can pick it up as tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/nameserver/host.[1c].
Chuck Hedrick/Rutgers is responsible for it.
--karl
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