From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 13:49:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finland.ispro.net.tr (finland.ispro.net.tr [212.174.120.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E939437B6D2 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 13:49:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from localhost (yurtesen@localhost) by finland.ispro.net.tr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA65889 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 23:49:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 23:49:14 +0300 (EEST) From: Evren Yurtesen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: reverse dns Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know that when somebody wants to resolv xyz.com this is first asked to root servers then to the dns server of the domain(which is found from the root servers) But I wonder if you want to lookup the name given for an IP address then how come the program knows which dns server to query? Evren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message