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From: "Steve Lalonde" <steve@enta.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple (aliased) IP Addresses and bind
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:13:32 +0100
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You need to setup reverse DNS to get nslookup to give you the name from
the ip address.

ref  DNS and Bind  o'reilly & associates  ISBN 1-56592-010-4



> chris@aladdin.net (Chris Cain) wrote in article
<4pnbe0$g3n@news.aladdin.co.uk>...
> Running bind on a system with multiple ip addresses allocated to an
ethernet
> card does not seem to work, the secondary IP addresses respond to pings
etc
> but not to name queries. 
> Anyone know why and what the fix is ?
> 
> Chris Cain
> 
> 
> 
>