On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 08:58:39PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 09:13:40PM +0300, Teemu Hukkanen wrote: > > $ dig -x 193.99.144.71 +short > > www.heise.de. > > Dig is not a generic gethostby* frontend, it's provided by bind only. dig does not use gethostby* at all, as far as I know. It builds and sends DNS queries and prints the responses. -- - mdz