Doesn't bind contact a server from /var/named/named.root to find "com" and contact it to find "3dillusion" and finally contact 3dillusion.com to find "shell" ?... etc. -Paul On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, David Schwartz wrote: > > How does the IRC server do a reverse lookup? The regular way, or do they > > ask the name server of that IP (which is quicker)? > > > > Thanks > > -Paul > > What is "the regular way"? > > DS > >