How to find the reverse on a IP address?

[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 recall how to check them.
> 
> If I remember, you could do it with both 'nslookup' and 'dig' correct?

Assuming IP address is 1.2.3.4:

dig -x 1.2.3.4

 or from the nslookup prompt:

 > set type=ptr
 > 4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa.

-T


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