Re: nslookup prompt...
Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into
interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think it comes
in dns-utils.
Jay Barbee wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have kind of a strange situation on my home system.
>
> I have named running for my home network and all lookups and queries run just
> fine. The odd part is, if I type 'nslookup <address>' it then gives me the ">"
> prompt. I will enter the address again and it errors out because the system at
> <address> is not running a DNS. Almost like it will not assume my linux box
> is where I want to query to...
>
> If I simply type 'nslookup' and hit enter to get the ">" and then type in
> <address> my Linux box spits the information I wanted originally. My
> resolve.conf has "nameserver 127.0.0.1 <next DNS> <last DNS>".
>
> Why can I not simply type 'nslookup <unknownmachine>' and get back what I
> am hunting for?
>
> --Jay Barbee
>
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