Re: From IP to domain name
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:25:02AM -0300, Ivan J. Varzinczak wrote:
> Hi, everybody!
>
> I'd like to know if someone can give me any sugestions about
> how I can discover the domain name given an IP address. For example,
> if I have the IP address 205.188.146.23, I would like to discover what
> the domain name is, in that case, aol.com.
> I've tried to use nslookup, but I've had some problems in
> setting the servers, because perhaps I'll need the "root" servers on
> internet and it doesn't work very well.
> Thanks in advance!
"host" should work:
$ host 205.188.146.23
Name: www2.aol.com
Address: 205.188.146.23
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/host
dnsutils: /usr/bin/host
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Drew Bloechl
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