non existent host/domain

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004271330350.3087-100000 at manatee.mammalia.org>,
R Joseph Wright  <rjoseph at speakeasy.org> wrote:
>For example, I can do nslookup microsoft.com and get this:

That's because the guy who set up the microsoft.com domain created A
records for it.  Their file contains something like:

microsoft.com.  IN A  207.46.131.30
                IN A  207.46.130.14
                IN A  207.46.130.149
                IN A  207.46.130.45
                IN A  207.46.131.137

>Why won't nslookup mammalia.org give me anything?

Because you didn't create any A records like that.  You can only look up
records that you put in the zone file.

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