Nslookup Times Out on A Lookup To Well-Known Hosts

[Steve Ingraham]

Will wrote:
>I have several well-known hosts that are failing A record lookups on
DNS >and I need help debugging this.

>We have the ISC Bind 9.3.0 set up on a box with a sendmail mail server,
>just to speed up the MX lookups on that box.   I go to the nslookup
command >line, and type something like the following:

>    type=mx
>    cox.net

>and what I get back is a timeout that lasts two seconds and then no
>response.

Will,
I have a typo in my earlier post.  The ">type=mx" line in your lookup
should be ">set type=mx".  So the commands should look like:

Nslookup - <IP address of external DNS>
>set type=mx
>cox.net

Steve Ingraham