Re: system names from IP

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From: Daniel Rich
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:10

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In article <hofmann.724433734@nova> hofmann@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Bernhard Hofmann) writes:
>beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck) writes:
>>Has anyone out there ever tried to resolve a system name
>>from an IP number?

>Have a look at the man page of gethostbyaddr. A simple C code should
>do the job.

Or, since this is an SGI group, you can type:
	nslookup -type=PTR ipaddress

For example, for uunet, type:
	nslookup -type=PTR 137.39.1.2


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