diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5d9afd4..d59ee31 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing",
  "tracing-error",
  "tracing-subscriber",
+ "zerocopy",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1338,3 +1339,24 @@ name = "windows_x86_64_msvc"
 version = "0.42.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9aec5da331524158c6d1a4ac0ab1541149c0b9505fde06423b02f5ef0106b9f0"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerocopy"
+version = "0.6.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "332f188cc1bcf1fe1064b8c58d150f497e697f49774aa846f2dc949d9a25f236"
+dependencies = [
+ "byteorder",
+ "zerocopy-derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerocopy-derive"
+version = "0.3.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6505e6815af7de1746a08f69c69606bb45695a17149517680f3b2149713b19a3"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 1.0.109",
+]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0368cf6..52d71e7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ once_cell = "1.17.1"
 eyre = "0.6.8"
 color-eyre = "0.6.2"
 tracing-error = "0.2.0"
+zerocopy = "0.6.1"
 
 [features]
 default = ["debug_server", "tokio_console"]
diff --git a/src/auth.rs b/src/auth.rs
index 6df0281..6d70bd2 100644
--- a/src/auth.rs
+++ b/src/auth.rs
@@ -2,9 +2,21 @@ use std::net::SocketAddr;
 
 use eyre::eyre;
 use tracing::{debug, instrument};
+use zerocopy::{AsBytes, FromBytes, LittleEndian, Unaligned};
 
 use crate::packets::{Header, Packet, PacketKind};
 
+type U16 = zerocopy::U16<LittleEndian>;
+type U32 = zerocopy::U32<LittleEndian>;
+
+#[derive(AsBytes)]
+#[repr(C)]
+struct DynIpUpdate {
+    number: U32,
+    pin: U16,
+    port: U16,
+}
+
 /// # Errors
 /// - the dyn ip server returns a malformed response or is unreachable
 /// - the authentication fails
@@ -25,18 +37,21 @@ pub async fn dyn_ip_update(
         data: Vec::new(),
     };
 
-    packet.data.clear();
-    packet.data.reserve(packet.header.length as usize);
-    packet.data.extend_from_slice(&number.to_le_bytes());
-    packet.data.extend_from_slice(&pin.to_le_bytes());
-    packet.data.extend_from_slice(&port.to_le_bytes());
+    packet.data.resize(packet.header.length as usize, 0);
+
+    DynIpUpdate {
+        number: number.into(),
+        pin: pin.into(),
+        port: port.into(),
+    }
+    .write_to(packet.data.as_mut_slice())
+    .unwrap();
 
     let mut socket = tokio::net::TcpStream::connect(server).await?;
 
     let (mut reader, mut writer) = socket.split();
 
     packet.send(&mut writer).await?;
-
     packet.recv_into(&mut reader).await?;
 
     let result = match packet.kind() {
diff --git a/src/client.rs b/src/client.rs
index e145102..18dc2bb 100644
--- a/src/client.rs
+++ b/src/client.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ use tracing::{info, instrument, trace};
 use crate::{
     auth::dyn_ip_update,
     constants::{AUTH_TIMEOUT, CALL_ACK_TIMEOUT, CALL_TIMEOUT, PING_TIMEOUT, SEND_PING_INTERVAL},
+    debug_server::peer_query,
     packets::{Header, Packet, PacketKind, RemConnect, REJECT_OOP, REJECT_TIMEOUT},
     ports::{PortHandler, PortStatus},
     Config, HandlerMetadata,
@@ -328,6 +329,10 @@ pub async fn handler(
 
     info!(%addr, number, port, "authenticated");
 
+    let res = peer_query(&config.dyn_ip_server, number).await;
+
+    dbg!(&res);
+
     let Some(listener) = handler_metadata.listener.as_mut() else {
         unreachable!("client sucessfully authenticated but did not set handler_metadata.listener");
     };
diff --git a/src/debug_server.rs b/src/debug_server.rs
index e6a5cc2..d12e799 100644
--- a/src/debug_server.rs
+++ b/src/debug_server.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ use std::net::SocketAddr;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use tokio::sync::Mutex;
 use tracing::error;
+use zerocopy::{AsBytes, FromBytes, LittleEndian, Unaligned};
+
+use eyre::eyre;
+use tracing::{debug, instrument};
+
+use crate::packets::{Header, Packet, PacketKind};
 
 use crate::ports::PortHandler;
 use crate::spawn;
@@ -41,3 +47,77 @@ pub async fn debug_server(addr: SocketAddr, port_handler: Arc<Mutex<PortHandler>
         error!(%error, "debug server error");
     }
 }
+
+type U16 = zerocopy::U16<LittleEndian>;
+type U32 = zerocopy::U32<LittleEndian>;
+
+#[derive(AsBytes)]
+#[repr(transparent)]
+struct PeerQuery {
+    number: U32,
+}
+
+#[derive(FromBytes, Unaligned, Debug)]
+#[repr(packed)]
+struct PeerReply {
+    number: U32,
+    name: [u8; 40],
+    flags: U16,
+    kind: u8,
+    hostname: [u8; 40],
+    ipaddress: [u8; 4],
+    port: U16,
+    extension: u8,
+    pin: U16,
+    timestamp: U32,
+}
+
+#[instrument]
+pub async fn peer_query(server: &SocketAddr, number: u32) -> eyre::Result<Option<String>> {
+    debug!(%number, "looking up");
+
+    let mut packet = Packet {
+        header: Header {
+            kind: 3, // Peer Query
+            length: 4,
+        },
+        data: Vec::new(),
+    };
+
+    packet.data.clear();
+    packet.data.resize(packet.header.length as usize, 0);
+
+    PeerQuery {
+        number: number.into(),
+    }
+    .write_to(packet.data.as_mut_slice())
+    .unwrap();
+
+    let mut socket = tokio::net::TcpStream::connect(server).await?;
+
+    let (mut reader, mut writer) = socket.split();
+
+    packet.send(&mut writer).await?;
+
+    packet.recv_into(&mut reader).await?;
+
+    dbg!(&packet);
+
+    if packet.kind().raw() == 5 {
+        // PeerReply
+        let reply = PeerReply::read_from(packet.data.as_slice());
+        dbg!(&reply);
+        Ok(reply.and_then(|x| {
+            let i = x
+                .name
+                .iter()
+                .enumerate()
+                .find_map(|(i, c)| (*c == 0).then_some(i))
+                .unwrap_or(x.name.len());
+
+            std::str::from_utf8(&x.name[..i]).ok().map(|x| x.to_owned())
+        }))
+    } else {
+        Ok(None)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/ports.rs b/src/ports.rs
index eedda49..a3a4583 100644
--- a/src/ports.rs
+++ b/src/ports.rs
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ impl PortHandler {
         };
 
         if let Some(port) = port {
-            info!(port, "allocated port");
+            info!(port, "allocated");
         }
 
         port