rDNS is just DNS where the name server has PTR records.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of ITschak Mugzach <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 3:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address yes, the man page says -a resolve address to hostnames. resolver is DNS afaik. ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM comming son * On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 10:47 PM Grant Taylor < [email protected]> wrote: > On 3/3/20 1:03 PM, ITschak Mugzach wrote: > > how about ping -a? it returns the workstation name. > > Where does that name come from? > > Does it rely on reverse DNS? > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
