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George D. Plymale II dff8f92cf0 dig.md: add reverse DNS lookup example (#1003)
Doing a reverse DNS lookup by typing out the IP address in reverse, plus adding .in-addr.arpa to the end is tedious, but fortunately dig has the -x option which makes that process much simpler as one can just feed it a normal IP address.
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# dig
> DNS Lookup utility.
- Lookup the IP(s) associated with a hostname (A records):
`dig +short {{hostname.com}}`
- Lookup the mail server associated with a given domain name (MX record):
`dig +short {{hostname.com}} MX`
- Specify an alternate DNS server to query (8.8.8.8 is google's public DNS):
`dig @8.8.8.8 {{hostname.com}}`
- Perform a reverse DNS lookup on an IP address (PTR record):
`dig -x 8.8.8.8`