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On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 08:56:29AM -0500, Brian Henning wrote:
> is there a bsd tool that gives the domain name of an IP address?=20
>=20
> I know this will give me an ip of one of the google web servers.
> traceroute www.google.com

    dig -x 12.34.56.78

- or -=20

    host 12.34.56.78

Note that rather fewer machines have a correctly registered reverse
mapping than should really be the case.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

--=20
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