dig

[Chris Buxton]

Try this:

dig -x 192.168.10.11

Unlike nslookup, dig needs to be told that you're giving it an IP  
address and not a domain name. Otherwise, you would use this format  
instead:

dig 11.10.168.192.in-addr.arpa PTR

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On Oct 15, 2007, at 11:58 PM, Aggarwal Vivek-Q4997C wrote:

>
>
> Hi
>
> Can anyone please confirm that whether the dig command works for  
> reverse
> query.
>
> I have web server www.abcd.com
> NS 			dns.abcd.com
>
> Reverse query via host and telnet command is working, even dig command
> is working when Iam tring forward query ie dig www.abcd.com
> But when I enter dig 192.168.10.11 it gives me SERVFAIL as output
>
> Can anyone help me in finding out the problem,
>
>
> Regards
> Vivek Aggarwal
> +919945505704
>
>