From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 10:18:50 2004 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 E27EE16A4CF for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:18:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D6043D31 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:18:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i0GIIbr27373; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:18:37 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200401161818.i0GIIbr27373@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: kirk@strauser.com (Kirk Strauser) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:18:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87isjb4w10.fsf@strauser.com> from "Kirk Strauser" at Jan 16, 2004 11:56:43 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address? 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: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:18:51 -0000 > > > Sure. just nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and if it comes back > > with a good/authoritive hostname it should be OK. > > > > Try man nslookup for more possibilities. > > Do note that nslookup is deprecated; see > http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=3D140 for a decent explanation why. Kind of short on information there. Maybe that is because I am not registered on that site. Anyway, is that being "deprecated" sort of a LINUXy thing? Does it apply to BSD, especaily FreeBSD too? ////jerry > > Kirk Strauser >