nslookup question

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Oct 30 14:50:56 UTC 2001


In article <9rlbeg$jgk at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
nobody special <rodneysimioni at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I'm new here so please tolerate my nusance of a probably dumb question. When
>we do a nslookup command of an ip address and it returns the dns name and
>other bits of information, does it mean the dns client is alive on the net
>or does it simply mean that the dns client is regestiered to a DNS server or
>both? What I'm trying to understand  is, does the dns client have to be
>alive in order for nslookup command to return data?

Doing a DNS lookup is like looking someone up in the phone book.  Just
because you can look them up doesn't mean the phone is actually plugged in.

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