"Adam Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers >> serving a given IP. >> >> I don't remember if it was nslookup, host, dig or what but not finding >> it in those various man pages. > > I have made a different assumtion about what your question means than > other posters - assuming you want to find which nameserver is hosting > the reverse lookup zone, with gentoo.org's IP address as an example; > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host gentoo.org > gentoo.org has address 204.74.99.100 > gentoo.org mail is handled by 10 mail.gentoo.org. > gentoo.org mail is handled by 40 mx2.gentoo.org. > > So to find out who's hosting the reverse record for 204.74.99.100 we > reverse the first three octets and add in.addr.arpa, ie; > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host -t NS 99.74.202.in-addr.arpa. > 99.74.202.in-addr.arpa name server hk-dns1.hk.prserv.net. > 99.74.202.in-addr.arpa name server hk-dns2.hk.prserv.net.
Nice trick and thanks for the info... I was looking for something like dig NS -x $IP posted by Boyd and the nslookup posted by Uwe T. -- [email protected] mailing list
