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Re: From IP to domain name



On Wed, 10 May 2000, 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!

nslookup 205.188.146.23
would use your default dns server - that should work

nslookup 205.188.146.23 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
would use xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx as the dns server

Are you behind a firewall?

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