[lug] IP address to host name?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:05:09PM -0600, Glenn Murray wrote:
>Thanks for the replies, nslookup and host will do fine.
>But I think I'm stuck on the syntax of whois above:
>do you mean
>
>$ whois xxx.xxx.xxx.0 at whois.arin.net

That's correct.  If the ip is 10.9.8.7, you would do:

	whois 10.9.8.0 at whois.arin.net

(or use the "-h whois.arin.net" syntax if that's what your version of
whois wants).

Sean
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