Where can I find a functional nslookup?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 12 17:38:51 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 12:14 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:06:02 +0100
> Patrick Lists wrote:
> 
> > Try dig.
> 
> Yea, like try to get useful information from the unbelievably
> cryptic program that is dig :-).

I use it all the time, though mainly for simple things, e.g.:

dig foo.com
dig -x 123.123.12.12
dig @my.favourite.dns.server foo.com
dig foo.com mx
dig foo.com soa

etc.

poc



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