From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 19: 9:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808B337B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:09:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.day-light.net (day-light.net [64.37.72.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C9D43EB2 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:09:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@day-light.com) Received: from w1 (118-203.bestdsl.net [216.162.118.203]) by mail.day-light.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 80E9235242 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:09:51 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: From: "John Brooks" To: Subject: RE: dig command for reverse dsn check Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:10:49 -0600 Message-ID: <005601c2b6c3$8b6c3e40$c905010a@daylight.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG another method ;-) use the 'host' command with either the domainname or the ip dle:demo:/etc {101} # host yahoo.com yahoo.com has address 66.218.71.198 yahoo.com has address 64.58.79.230 yahoo.com mail is handled (pri=1) by mx2.mail.yahoo.com yahoo.com mail is handled (pri=5) by mx4.mail.yahoo.com yahoo.com mail is handled (pri=1) by mx1.mail.yahoo.com dle:demo:/etc {102} # host 64.58.79.230 230.79.58.64.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer w1.rc.vip.dcx.yahoo.com -- John Brooks john@stlbsd.org > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of JoeB > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:43 PM > To: Fuzzy > Cc: FBSDQ > Subject: RE: dig command for reverse dsn check > > >>>>>>>>>> snip <<<<<<<<<<<<< > Thanks for the quick reply, but I need some clarification > MY email address = user@adelphia.net > My email server mail.clvhoh.adelphia.net > dig -x 66.26.76.83 ptr > what IP address to use in dig command? > The ip address of the domain name or the email server? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message