Reverse DNS on Home Network?

[Kevin Darcy]

Andrew wrote:

>>Just because nslookup is stupid about this, doesn't mean regular lookups 
>>(e.g. those generated by a browser while surfing) fail, does it? If 
>>regular lookups are failing as well, it's probably due to some separate 
>>problem.
>>    
>>
>
>Good point.
>
>However, the DNS lookups have been rather flakey lately.
>
>Sometimes I can tell that it's switching over to the secondary
>DNS server (my ISP), because the lookups take longer.
>
>What is the easiest way to tell for sure which DNS
>server my browser is using?
>
Unless you have a very strange browser, it should use whatever the rest 
of the system uses for DNS (although it may do some of its own local 
caching). So the usual "cat /etc/resolv.conf", "ipconfig", "winipcfg" or 
whatever should tell you, depending on what platform you're using.

- Kevi