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Find Reverse-DNS/PTR using dig, nslookup, host

November 9, 2020 by Yujin Boby

Reverse-DNS/PTR is used by mail servers. It is used to map an IP address to FQDN or hostname. To find Reverse DNS record for an IP address, run nslookup IP_ADDR_HERE In this example IP 51.38.246.115 have a Reverse DNS record ok.serverok.in Using dig You can also use dig command to find PTR record for an … Read more

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