From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 25 3: 1:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts9.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0540037B416 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 03:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from khan.anarcat.dyndns.org ([65.94.177.56]) by tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011125110149.KVNN20714.tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net@khan.anarcat.dyndns.org>; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 06:01:49 -0500 Received: from anarcat.dyndns.org (shall.anarcat.dyndns.org [192.168.0.1]) by khan.anarcat.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04561A1F; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 06:01:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C00CF50.21B0F04B@anarcat.dyndns.org> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 06:00:32 -0500 From: The Anarcat X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: fr-CA,fr,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: setantae Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: can't do reverse dns with /etc/hosts 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 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