Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 06:00:32 -0500 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> To: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can't do reverse dns with /etc/hosts Message-ID: <3C00CF50.21B0F04B@anarcat.dyndns.org> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011123164749.0245ec60@mail.enterit.com> <20011114173647.D66694@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011115012039.GA61093@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> <20011114173647.D66694@blossom.cjclark.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20011123164749.0245ec60@mail.enterit.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20011123172728.02c61518@mail.enterit.com> <20011124103734.GB386@irrelevant.org> <3BFFF17E.D2E2F7C1@anarcat.dyndns.org> <20011124214006.GA943@rhadamanth>
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Unfortunatly, traceroute to 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets traceroute: sendto: Permission denied 1 traceroute: wrote 10.0.0.1 40 chars, ret=-1 traceroute makes a lookup only if it receives a reply: traceroute to 10.0.0.2 (10.0.0.2), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 foo (10.0.0.2) 2.634 ms 4.243 ms 4.105 ms Good to know, though... A. setantae wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:14:06PM -0500, John Smith wrote: > > > > > > Simon Dick wrote: > > > > > > I guess my method of just using ping <hostname> and seeing what IP it tries > > > to ping won't be suitable for this? :) > > > > no because I want to test reverse DNS. ping doesn't lookup the name of a > > given address, IIRC. > > Ok, how about traceroute then ? > > Ceri > > -- > keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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