From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 7 11:40:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5B037B40F for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GHP00701NUPOH@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.215]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GHP00B7XNTWBB@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:39:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:36:17 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: How to Use 'whois' to Lookup Hostname From IP Address In-reply-to: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A041@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Message-id: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A043@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Drew Tomlinson [mailto:drewt@writeme.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:47 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: How to Use 'whois' to Lookup Hostname From IP Address > > > I can't seem to figure out how to use whois to find the > hostname from an IP > address. For example, I want to find the host name for [snip] Thanks to all for your suggestions. dig and nslookup work just fine. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message