August 9, 2007

Reverse DNS?

Can I (on a Novell network) turn an IP address into a computer name (I think this is "reverse DNS")?

  1. you cannot do this…
    as the aim of dns is to resolve ip from name for simplicity,so why would someone remember a long number besides a simple name!!
  2. Two ways.

    1. Put a host A record into your DNS Server
    or
    2. Edit the LMHosts file on the local machine that you want to see the remote computer.
    (Do a search for LMhost.sam and edit it with notepad)
    e.g

    192.168.1.10 localserver

    This will tell the local machine that the "Localserver" IP address is 192.168.1.10

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