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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:05:30 -0800
From: Victor Bondarenko <vpb@indite.org>
To: James Earl <mtntrip@telus.net>
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Subject: Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:52:04AM -0700, James Earl wrote:
[...]
> I'm assuming if I can use nslookup [ip-address] to get my hostname, 
> that reverse DNS on the ISP is setup properly.  Is this an okay 
> assumption?

Most likely, yes.  Just to be safe, I would do something like

nslookup [ip-address] [isps-nameserver]

to make sure that you're getting the query from your ISPs name server and
not from the one on your network (although if you have your network DNS
set up correctly it shouldn't make a difference.)

Victor

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