How to find authoritative server for reverse lookup

[Danny Mayer]

At 06:42 PM 2/15/01, TAT LUK wrote:

>         Can someone tell me how to find the authoritative server for reverse
>lookup of an    address or a block of address? What would that command be in
>nslookup under NT,
>         say if I want to find the reverse lookup authoritative server of
>address block 
>         208.215.237.0-255 or an address like 208.215.237.1? Thanks.


 >dig -x 208.215.237.1 any

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> -x any
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      1.237.215.208.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
237.215.208.in-addr.arpa.  6H IN SOA  auth02.ns.uu.net. hostmaster.uu.net. (
                                         970212          ; serial
                                         6H              ; refresh
                                         1H              ; retry
                                         2w6d            ; expiry
                                         6H )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 1000 msec
;; FROM: tecotoo to SERVER: default -- 208.218.130.4
;; WHEN: Thu Feb 15 23:17:54 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 44  rcvd: 131