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Re: system names from IP

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From: Sam Fulcomer
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:27
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In article <1992Dec14.172453.26933@den.mmc.com>, beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck) writes:
|> Howdy!
|> 
|> Has anyone out there ever tried to resolve a system name
|> from an IP number?  I've been poking around and the closest

I just use a stupid shell (csh) script which I've never bothered to make more
elegant (stdin if argc = 1, argc >2, etc...):

#!/bin/csh

set revaddr=`echo $1 | awk -F. '{printf("%s.%s.%s.%s\n",$4,$3,$2,$1)}' `

nslookup <<%%

set query=ptr
set domain=in-addr.arpa

$revaddr

%%
 

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