Quick lookup question.

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Armin M. Safarians <armin.safarians at safeway.com> wrote:
> How can I do a dns query and find all of the cnames that associate to a
> particular host.


Short version : you cannot. 

Finding all cnames is equivalent with asking all Internet nameservers 
for all possible FQDN to see if anyone has a cname "pointing" to you.


For the limited case of restricting your search among your own zones; 
use grep ( or egrep) on your zonefiles.

> Thank you all in advance for your help.
> Cheers;
> AMS :-)

You are welcome!

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