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nslookup is a utility to query DNS name servers

nslookup is a utility to query DNS name servers. It has two modes: interactive and non-interactive. Interactive mode allows the user to query name servers for information about various hosts and domains or to print a list of hosts in a domain. Non-interactive mode is used to print just the name and requested information for a host or domain. It is available on several systems like Unix-like systems and Windows systems.

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How can I verify Windows DNS forwarders are working?

I thought I knew how to do this, but I guess not. Even the d2 debugging in nslookup doesn't show the actual forwarder being queried. So...let's say I set up DNS forwarders in a Windows DNS server and then query using nslookup (or something else?)…
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Finding all aliases for a server

Our network admin is away at the moment. I'm trying to find all aliases attached to a given server on our network (actually a number of servers) After googling around it seems like nslookup might do this for me but it seems it doesn't. All of these…
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My domain on AWS Route 53 wont propagate

Hi have created a record set for the domain: lazycatthemes.com on Route 53 (domain was purchased through route 53) and gave it the 4 NS settings that Route 53 told me to configure: ns-368.awsdns-46.com ns-1963.awsdns-53.co.uk ns-848.awsdns-42.net…
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DNS can't resolve hostname; nslookup can

I have a user on Windows 7 that is trying to access a local server with a DNS name of windows.cs. We have two internal DNS servers. The DHCP server assigns users the two internal DNS servers as primary and secondary and then our ISPs DNS as a…
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How do I figure out what's wrong with my DNS record?

My network admins have created a DNS record for thedigitalteacher.com which should include an A record for the domain root pointing to 5.10.124.142, which is indeed the response I get if I use our internal name servers. However, Google's name…
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How to get authoritative answers from nslookup?

Why is it "Non-authoritative"? Even when I look for yahoo.com ip with ns3.yahoo.com I get Non-authoritative answer. Why does a yahoo server keep stackoverflow's ip? From where do I get stackoverflow's ip if not from ns3.yahoo.com?
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Why does nslookup return two or more ip address for yahoo.com or microsoft.com?

I am newbie with dns What is the exact reason that some sites report two or more ip address while others report single ip? 1) Is it feature or error in configuration? 2) Is it something related to backup address or fail-over config? 3) Can we setup…
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Ping hostname works but nslookup to hostname doesn't

I have a Windows 2008 standard server which can ping by hostname and give me the proper IP address back however if I try to do an nslookup on the hostname I receive: server: nmgdc1.nmg.local Address 192.168.1.10 DNS request timed out. timeout was 2…
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Why do dig, host and nslookup return different results?

It seems my default (router) DNS server returns different results depending on the tool used to query it. Using dig: $ dig @192.168.1.2 test.example.com ; <<>> DiG 9.16.8-Debian <<>> @192.168.1.2 test.example.com ; (1 server found) ;; global…
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OSX nslookup can resolve a lan hostname, but ping cannot?

I'm having an issue which recurs every few days, whereby ping cannot resolve a hostname on my LAN (but nslookup is able to). This is on OSX 10.9.2 (latest). The machine in this case is called 'solo', although it can occur with other hostnames at…
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Why is nslookup and dig giving me a "Warning: ID mismatch ... got 0" error?

I'm trying to troubleshoot some persistent connectivity issues and I'm frequently getting the following error message when using dig or nslookup. bash$ nslookup > www.google.com ;; Warning: ID mismatch: expected ID 36298, got 0 ;; Warning: ID…
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Ubuntu DNS Lookup Failure

Some one installed and configured ubuntu on a virtual machine hosted on a machine in our network. I've recently noticed that all DNS lookup's fail but i cant find a solution to this. I've tried a multitude of nameservers, edited the interfaces file…
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Why is nslookup reporting two IP addresses?

I made a DNS change a few hours ago and I just ran the following command with the following output: nslookup mydomain.com ns1.mynameserver.com Server: ns1.mynameserver.com Address: 111.111.111.111 Name: mydomain.com Addresses: …
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Determine if DNS server is master or slave with DiG

Is there a way to use DiG or nslookup to determine if a server is set to Master or Slave? And if a server is slave, return the Master's IP address?
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server can't find XXX.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN

I am facing a problem while configuring BIND DNS showing server can't find XXX.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN while reverse dns check! everything works on forward DNS lookup but reverse DNS lookup fails. Here are my configuration files: named.conf options…
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