Neil Moore-Smith wrote:
> Who actually manages the reverse lookup domains?
Who manages which reverse lookup domains?
> We got a bunch of subnets
> from our ISP, and I set up a primary name server, which works fine. If you
> do a whois query, mine is listed, along with the ISP's, and they do a zone
> transfer every day. So far so good. I also set up ccc.bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa
> as a primary zone on my name server and maintain it. Are you saying that
> this should be registered? It seems to work, as mail programs that do a
> reverse lookup as an anti-spam check seem to go through OK. Who should it
> be registered with?
All domains need to be delegated by the parent domain, i.e.
ccc.bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa needs to be delegated by
bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa.
Use nslookup or dig to locate the nameservers for the domain
bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa, then ask those nameservers to which nameservers
the ccc.bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa domain is delegated.
> Second, I always meant to ask someone... how do you do a reverse lookup, to
> find the host and domain name associated with an IP address? I know it can
> be done programatically, but is there a command line utility, like whois?
You can use
nslookup -q=ptr x.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa.
although this will only use DNS (and not /etc/hosts, NIS, etc).
Alternatively, try the attached program.
--
Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
struct hostent *host;
struct in_addr addr;
if (argc != 2)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <IP address>\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}
if (inet_aton(argv[1], &addr) == 0)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Invalid IP address: %s\n", argv[1]);
return 2;
}
host = gethostbyaddr((const char *) &addr.s_addr, sizeof(addr), AF_INET);
if (!host)
{
herror("gethostbyaddr");
return 3;
}
printf("%s\n", host->h_name);
return 0;
}
