Question : IP address -> Host names

I want to know what host names are handled by a web server of a certain IP address. For instance, the domains www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com could be located ont he same webserver via the IP address 007.007.123.123, but how can I get a list of all the host names handled by this specific webserver?

PS. This was also posted in the Misc topic. Someone there suggested I asked the question in Networking instead. Should I delete the other entry?

Thanks!

Answer : IP address -> Host names

Ok, how to answer this.

MS - If you have access to the local machine - To view the current DNS cache content and the entries preloaded from the Hosts file, go to the command prompt and type
C:\> ipconfig /displaydns

For Unix/Linux - You have to send the named process a signal to tell it to dump its authoritative data and cache to a file, usually called named_dump.db. On HP-UX, you can use sig_named dump. On Linux, you can use ndc dumpdb. If you don't have either sig_named or ndc, you can use kill -INT .

If you are trying to see a remote web server’s DNS cache. In other words you want to look at my DNS cache from your location - it is my understanding that it is not possible because the DNS names are cached into memory not physically store. Root name servers contain physical records like Network Solutions and you can look at their records using the WHOIS tool.

When the Network Solutions systems received your request, it checks its WHOIS record for yourdomain.com. Since yourdomain.com is pointing to XX servers (dns1.XX.com and dns2.XX.com), Network Solutions forwards your request to XX network.

Let me know if I’m wrong or if there is a tool out that does it. I would like to have it also.
Hope this Helps.....