On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:41:52 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> The process of working it out *CAN* be done like this. I am "gonzales" >> lookup this to find my IP, I find I am 192.168.1.11. Okay, now lets >> lookup 192.168.1.11 (a reverse lookup) to find my FQDN, and I get told >> that I'm "gonzales.example.com.", and that's the end of that story. > > I think you would have to explain what you mean by "lookup" for this > explanation to be much use. > There is no command "lookup" on my system. Fwiw, I took "lookup" as a typo for plain English "look up," and it made sense. (It may take quite a while to learn properly, but it did make sense at that point for him to say, in effect, "Now let's look jiggamadiddle up ..." -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 2.00, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines