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Date:      Sat, 24 Nov 2001 21:40:06 +0000
From:      setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        John Smith <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: can't do reverse dns with /etc/hosts
Message-ID:  <20011124214006.GA943@rhadamanth>
In-Reply-To: <3BFFF17E.D2E2F7C1@anarcat.dyndns.org>
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>

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On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:14:06PM -0500, John Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> Simon Dick wrote:
> > 
> > I guess my method of just using ping <hostname> 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

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