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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by wi...@mailops.com on 2001/07/06 06:16:21 UTC
Re[2]: Reverse DNS lookup
Friday, July 06, 2001, 12:02:29 AM, dwall@myEastside.com wrote:
>> InetAddress.getByName(<ip address>).getHostName() will do what you
>> want, if the info is available.
DW> Where would the info have to be available?
in a PTR record on a nameserver
DW> Is there anything comparable to
DW> a "dig -x" command under Unix?
dig just uses the PTR record
DW> For most IP addresses, there will not be
DW> anything configured on my computer, but I know that ARPA reverse lookups are
DW> possible.
DW> The method you show above still returns the IP address on my system, yet a
DW> "dig -x" will show the host name resolved.
maybe the dig command is using a cached value? In other words, if it
did a forward lookup on the hostname, then it might be returning
that name for the IP, even if no pointer record (in-addr-arpa) exists.
What is the IP that you're looking up?
DW> David