DNS - rDNS - Reverse DNS (lookup|resolution) - from IP to name

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About

A reverse dns lookup is a dns lookup that get the DNS name (known also as the reverse DNS name) from the IP address

The inverse is called a forward dns lookup

The reverse DNS database of the Internet is rooted in the .arpa top-level domain.

This is not the physical hostname but the name known in the name service (DNS) The hostname has no relation to the ip.

Management

Get

You need to query the name service.

Nslookup

NSLOOKUP. Example from googlebot

nslookup 66.249.66.1
Name:    crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com
Address:  66.249.66.1

Ping

Ping which will try to use WINS and DNS

ping -a 192.168.10.241
Pinging gerardnico01.gerardnico.local [192.168.10.241] with 32 bytes of d
ata:

Reply from 192.168.10.241: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.10.241: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.10.241: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.10.241: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.10.241:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

host

host ip

dig

Set

PTR record

A PTR record creates the reverse entry.

Documentation / Reference





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