Strange Query (loopback)

Doug Barton DougB at DougBarton.net
Thu Dec 19 23:04:36 UTC 2002


On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Walker Simon-SWALKER1 wrote:

>  However if I physically type in nslookup yahoo.com on the server it
> does a PTR lookup of the loopback address first then issues a query for
> yahoo.com

http://dougbarton.net/bind-users/FAQ.html#nslookup-reverse explains what
it's doing.

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