Problem with NSLOOKUP

[M]

Josh Littlefield <joshl at cisco.com> wrote in message
news:37581439.C16C8715 at cisco.com...
> I strongly agree that dig is far more useful for DNS debugging than
nslookup
> for all the reasons you suggested.  But in the PTR example you gave, you
> should know that (recent) dig will allow you to specify an in-addr.arpa
> lookup more easily, but still explicitly:
>
>   dig -x 199.191.128.103
>
> performs a query of type ANY for 103.128.191.199.in-addr.arpa.
>
>   dig -x 199.191.128.103 ptr
>
> performs a query of type PTR for the same name.
>

Doh!  Don't tell this to the uninitiated!  Let 'em learn how to do it the
right way first!  :-)

Regards,
Mike

PS:  No soup for you!  One year.

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Michael Milligan - Acme Byte & Wire LLC - milli at acmebw.com