eric@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Eric Fielding) (02/07/89)
In a recent article rr2g@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rhonda Ragland) wrote: >How did you get this info from your "nameserver"? I'd like to be able >to do this also. > Rhonda Ragland >rr2g@virginia.edu rr2g@virginia.bitnet Under most U*IX systems, there is a command called 'nslookup' that asks the nameservers to lookup a hostname. It also runs under our VMS system with TWG TCP/IP software. Presumably it only works for machines on the Internet. The syntax I used to find 'simtel20.arpa' was: nslookup simtel20.arpa I don't know how to do it on other systems. ++Eric Fielding eric@geology.tn.cornell.edu