[SWLUG] Locating domain names ... called reverse DNS, but still not a solution

[Neil Greenwood]

On 22/11/06, pbhj (swlug) <swlug at alicious.com> wrote:
> Hey-hey, just happen to be here now ..
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup
> http://www.dnsstuff.com/ has a reverse lookup tool.
>
> I suspect it won't be what you're after, it seems to give the primary domain
> name for the box at the hosting provider and not a list of domains served
> from that specific host server ... just like nslookup does!
>
> Cheers
>
> pbhj
>
> On Wednesday 22 November 2006 11:07, Neil Jones wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I haven't posted for a while but I have a question.
> > You have an IP address. You think there may be a web domain parked on
> > it. Is there any way to find out what that domain(s) may be on the
> > address or even DNS servers.
> >
> > I've just been experimenting with a server I rent. Nslookup for example
> > just returns the name given by the people from whom I rent it.
> >
> > Any ideas ( or isn't this possible?)
> >
Hi Neil,

You could also try
dig -x [ip address]

I was using this yesterday in work to locate a problem with DNS (my PC
has a fixed address allocated, but a different hostname was coming
back from the reverse lookup).

HTH
Hwyl,
Neil.