Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
[nslookup being deprecated] On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:58:44PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't mean to ask about the meaning of the word deprecated, but rather, is nslookup being deprecated a LINUXy thing, or is that going to happen in FreeBSD too? No, it's neither Linux

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 04:00:32PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: [nslookup being deprecated] OK. It is just that when something gets labeled deprecated often there is a note indicating that put in the man page, but I didn't see one for nslookup. ISC announced the deprecation of

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
and the BIND9 documentation includes this statement: Due to its arcane user interface and frequently inconsistent behavior, we do not recommend the use of nslookup. Use dig instead. =20 These notices will no doubt appear in the base system when

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-16 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:28:47AM -0800, Jason Williams wrote: Morning everyone. I'm having a major brain freeze this morning. I dont recall how to find the reverse for an IP address? I need to do some testing with a few IP addresses, to ensure they have valid reverse's set, but dont

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
Morning everyone. I'm having a major brain freeze this morning. I dont recall how to find the reverse for an IP address? I need to do some testing with a few IP addresses, to ensure they have valid reverse's set, but dont recall how to check them. If I remember, you could do it

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-01-16T17:36:45Z, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure. just nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and if it comes back with a good/authoritive hostname it should be OK. Try man nslookup for more possibilities. Do note that nslookup is deprecated; see

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
Sure. just nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and if it comes back with a good/authoritive hostname it should be OK. Try man nslookup for more possibilities. Do note that nslookup is deprecated; see http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=3D140 for a decent explanation why. Kind of

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-16 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote: Do note that nslookup is deprecated; see http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=3D140 for a decent explanation why. Kind of short on information there. Maybe that is because I am not registered on that site. Anyway, is that being deprecated

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-16 Thread Darryl Grant
You can also try using host host 123.45.67.89 On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:18:35PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: Sure. just nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and if it comes back with a good/authoritive hostname it should be OK. Try man nslookup for more possibilities. Do

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote: Do note that nslookup is deprecated; see http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=3D140 for a decent explanation why. Kind of short on information there. Maybe that is because I am not registered on that site. Anyway, is that being

Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?

2004-01-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
[nslookup being deprecated] On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:58:44PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't mean to ask about the meaning of the word deprecated, but rather, is nslookup being deprecated a LINUXy thing, or is that going to happen in FreeBSD too? No, it's neither Linux nor BSD