How to find the reverse on a IP address?

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Fri Jan 16 09:37:01 PST 2004


> 
> Morning everyone.
> 
> I'm having a major brain freeze this morning. I dont recall how to find the 
> reverse for an IP address?
> 
> I need to do some testing with a few IP addresses, to ensure they have 
> valid reverse's set, but dont recall how to check them.
> 
> If I remember, you could do it with both 'nslookup' and 'dig' correct?

Sure.   just  nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and if it comes back
with a good/authoritive hostname it should be OK.

Try   man nslookup  for more possibilities.

////jerry

> 
> Anyone have a moment to help me out here? In the meantime, it's man page 
> time...
> 
> I appreciate the help.
> 
> Jason
> 
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