Where can I find complete documentation on nslookup?

Cricket Liu cricket at menandmice.com
Wed Jan 8 20:38:21 UTC 2003


Thomas B wrote:
> I found some examples browsing the net, but I can't find one for
> reverse lookups. 
> 
> The following works fine:
> 
> nslookup
> update add xyz.reymon.com 600 A 192.168.10.50

I'm surprised by that.  That update command is used with 
nsupdate, not nslookup.

> and I can do nslookups on xyz
> 
> But I still can't do lookups on 192.168.10.50
> 
> The man page doesn't list the syntax to do a reverse lookup.

Do you really want to use nsupdate or nslookup?

cricket

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