Re: dig/nslookup

In article <cbubr0$blg$1@sf1.isc.org>,
"Eric Rousse" <ericrousse@jetemail.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Not really related to bind, specifically. But maybe someone
> could let me know where I could find the answer.
>
> I have like 3000 IP that I would need to do reverse lookups
> on them, I'll do the request using our nameservers, but is there
> a sleep I should do between each lookups ?

Unless your nameserver is overloaded, it should be able to handle
rapid-fire queries.

> And does anyone have a script that could help me to do all these lookups
> in one shot and so that I have all the dnsname associated with the IP
> in ascending order by using the IP, guess I'll have to do the script by my
> self,

Rather than parse the output of dig or nslookup, it might be easier to
do it as a Perl script. There's a Net::DNS module that should make it
pretty easy.

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