[CLUE-Tech] Reverse DNS

[Randy Arabie]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Matt Gushee wrote:

> Can anybody tell me the usual way to do a reverse DNS lookup from
> the command line?

I like dig --->

<SNIP>

[rrarabie at voldemort arabirr]$ dig havenrock.com

; <<>> DiG 9.1.0 <<>> havenrock.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27380
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;havenrock.com.                 IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
havenrock.com.          3600    IN      A       216.92.75.70

;; Query time: 130 msec
;; SERVER: XXX.XXX.X.XXX#53(XXX.XXX.X.XXX)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr  8 14:55:09 2002
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 47

[rrarabie at voldemort arabirr]$ dig -t ANY havenrock.com

; <<>> DiG 9.1.0 <<>> -t ANY havenrock.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64616
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;havenrock.com.                 IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
havenrock.com.          172658  IN      NS      NS00.NS0.com.
havenrock.com.          172658  IN      NS      NS116.PAIR.com.
havenrock.com.          3583    IN      A       216.92.75.70

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
havenrock.com.          172658  IN      NS      NS00.NS0.com.
havenrock.com.          172658  IN      NS      NS116.PAIR.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS00.NS0.com.           172658  IN      A       216.92.60.60
NS116.PAIR.com.         172658  IN      A       209.68.1.241

;; Query time: 37 msec
;; SERVER: XXX.XXX.X.XXX#53(XXX.XXX.X.XXX)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr  8 14:55:26 2002
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 158

[rrarabie at voldemort arabirr]$ dig -x 216.92.75.70
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52357
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;70.75.92.216.in-addr.arpa.     IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
70.75.92.216.in-addr.arpa. 7200 IN      PTR     havenrock.com.

;; Query time: 398 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr  8 14:59:27 2002
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 70

</SNIP>

-- 
Cheerio!

Randy

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