rdns

rdns provides a tiny little UNIX utility that will preform reverse dns lookups.
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Doug Hoyte
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.hcsw.org

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rdns provides a tiny little UNIX utility that will preform reverse dns lookups. rdns provides a tiny little UNIX utility that will preform reverse dns lookups.This simple little program takes an IP address as an argument, and spits out the hostname that it finds. It's a simple little program designed to be used in scripts, primarily.Syntax:rdns Optionally, you can append -s onto the command line. This will prevent rdns from printing any available aliases.Note: Sometimes rdns will just seem to hang there during the gethostbyname() call. This usually occurs when you try to resolve addresses private IP addresses, like 192.168.*, 10.* and so forth. This is usually BAD for scripting, so try to have all the possible hosts in your /etc/hosts.


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