external lookup question

[Cricket Liu]

Kevin M Shortt wrote:
> I am pretty sure that it can't be done, but I figured
> I will ask to put to rest any of my second thoughts.
> 
> Can an end user use command line tools to find out
> all the CNAME's associated to a given IP address?
>
> The user does not have access to the filesystem the
> config resides on.

No.  Even if he did have access to the zone data file that
contained the A record that the CNAME records pointed
to, he'd have no way of finding a CNAME record in
another zone that happened to point to the owner of the
A record.

cricket

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