From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 14:04:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA21440 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:04:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21435 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:04:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA17718; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:06:15 GMT Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa03750; 24 Oct 96 17:10 EDT Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:10:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve To: John Brann cc: freeq Subject: Re: DNS setup question In-Reply-To: <199610241657.MAA25638@doorman.brann.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, John Brann wrote: > Hi, > > I am having trouble with the reverse resolution (i.e. converting my > IP address back into the hostname). All the examples I have are based on > converting whole networks, is there something different about the '.rev' > file when only resolving one address? reverse resolution in in-addr.arpa - You need to ask the person who assigned you your IP to set it for you, or you have to fake up a local one.