1/13    I need help fixing someone's Win2K box.  Setup:  Win2K box -> D-Link
        router -> DSL modem.  The Win2K box cannot obtain a DHCP address
        (other computers can).  So, I assign a static IP, and set the default
        gateway and DNS server to be the D-Link router.  After this, the Win2K
        box can access web pages on the Internet as long as you specify the
        web site IP address directly -- but DNS doesn't work.  Computer used
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12/18   How do I find soda's IP address?  More specifically, if I want to
        give out my email address as <login>@IP_address, how would I do it?
        \_ host http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu
           Why would you want to give that out as an email address?
           It would be very ill-advised. IP addresses change.
           \_ Wanted to trick a subscription list into letting me have more
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1/15    What is in-addr.arpa do?  Zoen alarm says I have traffic coming from
        12.141.96.211, and nslookup says the Name is:
        211.96.141.12.in-addr.arpa.   Does the traffic really come from the
        12.* address or the 211.* address?
        \_ 12.*.  in-addr-arpa is reverse lookup, and it's configured
           from right to left.  'in' stands for 'inverse', I think.  -John
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11/5    How do I find out who "owns" a specific IP address when it doesn't
        resolve with nslookup? ie. There's a host down, and I want to
        report the outage to the appropriate company.
        \_ whois -a address (substitute -e or -p for non-US addresses)
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11/6    What's the easiest way to resolve a name to an IP on a machine
        that doesn't have bind. Is there a shell function?
        \_ ping
        \_ nslookup?
        \_ many os's have "host", but ping is probably most universal.
        \_ The machine doesn't have BIND installed?  Or doesn't use a
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3/14    Will nslookup up on solaris work if the DNS IP does not have
        a hostname? I'm doing "nslookup - DNS-IP-ADDR" and it says
        non-existent host/domain and nslookup just exits.
        The DNS server is up and pingable and nslookup works fine from
        it (Cobalt Linux) -- signed, DNS newbie.
       \_ I don't know about any Solaris-specific DNS behavior, but (a)
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2/22    I want to access a networded printer from OSX.  I can access it
        from a regular unix computer but somehow it is not showing up in
        AppleTalk listing and I cannot change its setup.  How do I find
        its IP and print through that?  Ok tnx.
        \_ Walk to the printer and press some buttons to print out a server
           config page?  If there's one, it should show the printer's IP
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11/29   On NT, how do you find the IP address on the machine you are on.
        (without using a system call to "hostname" or "nslookup").
        I'm talking not at the command prompt but inside of C/C++ code.
        \_ command prompt> ipconfig
        \_ start->shutdown, boot with OpenBSD floppy, install,
           then look at ifconfig source code.
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1/20    If you know a person's IP address at which they're connected to
        the Internet, is there some sort of way to find out what kind of
        computer system they're using?
        \_ newest release of nmap will do this reasonably well by
           examing differences in tcp/ip stack.  There is another
           prog called queso that does this as well.  See also
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11/09   How do I go from a domain name to a numeric IP address?
        \_ nslookup, host, or dig
        \_ gethostbyname
                \_ CSUA: gethostbyname
                   gethostbyname: Command not found.
                   \_ gethostbyname(3), silly.  man 3 gethostbyname
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11/3    Does the IP address 192.0.2.1 have any special meaning?  Thanks.
        \_ Yeah, isn't that http://www.yermom.com
        \_ Your DNS-fu is weak
        ;; ANSWERS
        http://www.yermom.com 7200    A       208.155.1.20
           \_ nslookup doesn't return a name for this address.  The reason
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