[Info-vax] Telnet DNS Problem (OpenVMS 8.4, Itanium)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-02-17 14:33:47 +0000, serfsmith at gmail.com said:

> Well no ... it *is* true that the DNS/DHCP servers are not correctly 
> configured at present to provide a correct answer to PTR queries (as 
> shown below from my workstation):
> 
> C:\Users\smithe>hostname
> 2744-b46c
> 
> C:\Users\smithe>ping -4 2744-b46c

That's not reverse DNS; IP to name.   That's forward DNS; name to IP.   
To see reverse DNS:

dig -x 192.168.55.2

The tenet server has the IP address.   For logging, it'll want the 
associated host name, if there is one.   That's reverse DNS.


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