From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 10:55:39 2003 Return-Path: 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 704ED37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:55:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (malkav.snowmoon.com [209.23.60.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E0E243F75 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:55:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 60856 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2003 18:55:37 -0000 Received: from localhost.snowmoon.com (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.snowmoon.com with SMTP; 27 Mar 2003 18:55:37 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:55:37 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime To: James Earl In-Reply-To: <20030327185204.GA645@comp4.ici.net> Message-ID: <20030327135506.A60255-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,RCVD_IN_NJABL, X_NJABL_OPEN_PROXY autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:55:40 -0000 > I'm assuming if I can use nslookup [ip-address] to get my hostname, > that reverse DNS on the ISP is setup properly. Is this an okay > assumption? If you know enough about nslookup, then yes. I'd suggest "host -v 1.2.3.4", though. Its a bit easier. :) Jaime