DNS query tools

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Fri Oct 7 18:29:29 UTC 2005


At 10:08 AM -0700 2005-10-07, louey-3 at excite.com wrote:

>  Other than windows built in nslookup are there any other tools for
>  querying DNS Servers out there........

	Don't use "nslookup".  Use "dig" instead.  Higher-level DNS 
debugging tools include "dnswalk" and "doc".  There are also very 
high-level tools provided by some websites, such as 
<http://www.dnsreport.com/>.

	See the DNS Resources Directory at <http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/> 
for more information.

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