Basic HTML version of Foils prepared July 6 99

Foil 11 DNS - Domain Name Service (6)

From Directory Services for the Internet CPS714 Computational Science Information Track -- June 7 99. by Roman Markowski
nslookup (exists for Unix and WinNT)
> help
> set querytype=MX list mail servers and name servers
>npac.syr.edu
> set querytupe=NS list name servers
>npac.syr.edu
> set quarytype=A list IP addresses
>merkury.npac.syr.edu
> ls -d npac.syr.edu list all computers in the domain
> ls -a npac.syr.edu list all canonical names and aliases
> ls -t mx npac.syr.edu list all mx records
> set type=mx
> netscape.com all mail servers in the domanin
> set type=PTR
> 25.117.230.128.in-addr.arpa

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