Try nslookup and ping -a

The ping -a is useful if you want to lookup someone within a LAN
because it will resolve the Windows SMB and give you there user id

The nslookup that comes with WinNT/Windows2000/WinXP is not
as first class as the standard unix kind.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Sundar [mailto:linux@esaravana.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:38 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Reverse DNS lookup


Would you guys, by any chance know, how you can do it from Windoze client?

Sundar

Matt Alexander wrote:

>host ip-address
>
>
>On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Sundar wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>How to do reverse DNS lookup in intranet? I have the ip address and I
>>want to get the dns name for the ip address.
>>
>>Sundar
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