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Old 05-14-2008
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If the servers are 10.20.30.40 and 10.20.30.41, does "host 10.20.30.40" return the name of the one server, and does "host 10.20.30.41" return the name of the other? That's reverse DNS, mapping an IP address back to the name of the host. (Use nslookup or dig instead of host, equivalently.)
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