Reverse DNS assigns hostnames to IP addresses. How is the name of the IP address 198.51.100.165 stored
on a DNS server?
Reverse DNS lookups query DNS servers for a PTR (pointer) record; if the server does not have a PTR record, it cannot resolve a reverse lookup. PTR records store IP addresses with their segments reversed, and they append ''.in-addr.arpa'' to that. For example, if a domain has an IP address of 192.0.2.1, the PTR record will store the domain's information under 1.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa.In IPv6, the latest version of the Internet Protocol, PTR records are stored within the ''.ip6.arpa'' domain instead of '.in-addr.arpa.'1Therefore, the name of the IP address 198.51.100.165 is stored in the PTR record for 165.100.51.198.in-addr.arpa.Reference:1: Reverse DNS lookup - Wikipedia1
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