Re: AIX 5L & reverse DNS lookups

From: Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 11:13:03 EST


>I would assume it would be up
to the application to request the lookup and AIX does not do it by
default
for all IP based app's.

You are right.

>We can't get a definitive answer from our vendor about reverse lookups
from
their app

use tcpdump to find this out. shouldnt be too hard.

f.e.

tcpdump Ipxvi en1 port dns

en1 is the interface where your default-route is (netstat -rn|grep
default)



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