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Date:      Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:14:06 -0500
From:      John Smith <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org>
To:        Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
Cc:        Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>, cjclark@alum.mit.edu, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: can't do reverse dns with /etc/hosts
Message-ID:  <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>

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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.

a.

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