"dig" give no Hostnames back

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Thu Aug 28 13:45:29 UTC 2008


On 23.08.08 16:38, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> ----[ command 'dig PTR 192.168.0.70' ]----------------------------------
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> PTR 192.168.0.70
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ???  --  What is now broken?

use "dig -x 192.168.0.70". if you provide an IP to hostname, it will reverse
it and look for PTR. dig does not have such automatic functionality.

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