dove@mit-bug.UUCP (Web Dove) (11/13/85)
Occasionally I want to contact a host that is not in our database. If I could talk to a nameserver near where I suspect the host to be I might be able to learn its net number. Unfortunately, the nameserver (socket 53/tcp) does not have ascii interaction like SMTP, so I couldn't interact with simply a terminal. We do not have nameserver code wired into out C library yet. Does anyone out there have a standalone program for interacting with the nameserver on a specific machine?