Using dig to Look Up IP Address

[Michael Kjorling]

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It looks fine from my end (I used host to get the information just
before which is why the response was cached):

	[michael at varg michael]$ dig -x 206.168.47.1
	;; Got answer:
	;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54058
	;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

	;; QUESTION SECTION:
	;1.47.168.206.in-addr.arpa.     IN      PTR

	;; ANSWER SECTION:
	1.47.168.206.in-addr.arpa. 604765 IN    CNAME   1.moi.47.168.206.in-addr.arpa.
	1.moi.47.168.206.in-addr.arpa. 86366 IN PTR     mail.mediaodyssey.com.

	;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
	moi.47.168.206.in-addr.arpa. 86366 IN   NS      ns.clarkecomputer.com.
	moi.47.168.206.in-addr.arpa. 86366 IN   NS      ns1.mediaodyssey.com.

	;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
	ns.clarkecomputer.com.  172765  IN      A       216.17.138.123
	ns1.mediaodyssey.com.   172765  IN      A       206.168.47.2

	;; Query time: 5 msec
	;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(0.0.0.0)
	;; WHEN: Sat Jun 30 00:33:04 2001
	;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 180

	[michael at varg michael]$


Michael Kjörling


On Jun 29 2001 15:37 -0600, Jim wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the replies.  For whatever reason, the two methods
> below don't seem to be equivalent, at least not for my own DNS.  We've
> got a /25 with addresses 0 to 127 and our upstream provider has
> delegated the reverse lookups to our NAME servers.  Only the
> "non-shortcut" method resolves the CNAME.
>
> Anything unusual or incorrect about our setup that would cause this?
>
> For example:
>
> C:\>dig -x 206.168.47.1

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