nslookup

[John Oliver]

On 21 Dec 2002 18:20:34 -0000, Norman Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While I search a for record on DNS server, I get the following warning
> message.
> 
> DNS request timed out.
>     timeout was 2 seconds.
> ....
> 
> The ... are the valid information of my lookup. Does this mean I reading the
> cached info (on my ISP DNS)? Or am I actually getting through to my DNS? I
> did do a server my.server.ip.address in nslookup.

Don't use nslookup.  Use host or dig.

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