[YLUG] Testing name lookups

[Arthur Clune]

On 6 Sep 2007, at 22:40, Roger Leigh wrote:

>   Unfortunately, tools
> like host, nslookup and dig appear to only query the DNS servers in
> /etc/resolv.conf, whereas I want to also query hosts

Dig lets you specify the server:

biber:~ 513: dig @144.32.128.242 york.ac.uk.  
SOA                                               9:13:31

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> @144.32.128.242 york.ac.uk. SOA
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
[snip guff]

Arthur


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