Host command timing out sporadically

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Thu May 3 09:36:41 UTC 2012


Lyle Giese <lyle at lcrcomputer.net> wrote:
>
> Don't use host.  It's not telling us what is going wrong and it's only doing
> an A record lookup of host name.

I agree dig is better for serious debugging, but for a quick check host
isn't as bad as you suggest.

$ host dotat.at
dotat.at has address 212.13.197.229
dotat.at has IPv6 address 2001:ba8:1e3::
dotat.at mail is handled by 1 ppsw-mx-a.csi.cam.ac.uk.
$ host nx.dotat.at
Host nx.dotat.at not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
$ host bad-delegation.dotat.at
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
$

Tony.
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