HELP: How do i get my server to tell me the host name when i PING -a IP

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Wed Jun 28 22:08:07 UTC 2000


In article <s4r65.679$S8.11596 at news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>,
Karl Gamble <karl.gamble73 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>HELP: How do i get my server to tell me the host name when i PING -a IP

The DNS administrator for the destination network needs to create a PTR
record in the reverse domain.

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