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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>
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John Galt wrote:

> Use dig--they're talking about deprecating nslookup in bind 9... so it'll
> be:
>=20
> dig @63.8.31.60

No, it won't.  @foo specifies that dig should use foo as the nameserver.  I
think you'd need

dig -x 63.8.31.60 ptr

The only thing which annoys me about dig is that you don't do "dig
foo" where "foo" is a local name, you must explicitly say "dig
foo.my.domain.whatever.com".  Oh well.

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