>>>>> "Jim" == Jim McAtee <jmcatee at mediaodyssey.com> writes: Jim> Is there a way to use dig to look up an A record then Jim> immediately do an reverse lookup on the returned IP address? Jim> dig somehostname.com Jim> dig -x 1.2.3.4 You just did it! Though a little shell script might be better: for i in `dig some-host-name A +short` do dig -x $i done