Re: Reverse DNS lookup

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From: Michael Dwyer
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:00

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Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
: traffic for your gateway, assuming you know which one is your gateway. 
: Problem is, I only know my gateway's IP, not it's name.  I was hoping
: reverse DNS would give me a clue.

Both the Unix "traceroute" and the Windows "tracert" appear to do
reverse resolution by default.  If reverse mapping exists, they
should have done it for you.  

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