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 -- Drew Bloechl [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSA key ID: 33855516