Change Query Type on nslookup

[Mark Andrews]

In message <4D9D502D.7080108 at data.pl>, Torinthiel writes:
> On 04/07/11 06:42, mee thun wrote:
> > Good Morning..
> >=20
> > I am new member in this mailing list. I need help to change the query
> > type in the nslookup command.
> > The default nslookup using A, but I use ipv6 so the query type must use=
> 
> > AAAA. I don't know how to change the default nslookup from A to AAAA
> > permanently?
> 
> first, this is a bind list, and nslookup is not a bind tool. Consider
> using dig, which is much better in this case.

nslookup is a BIND tool,  we just tried hard to deprecate it.
 
> And, IIRC, when you run nslookup you can put
> set type=AAAA
> yourquery.com
> 
> and that should give the effect you want
> I have no idea how to change the default query type for any of the tools.=
> 
> 
> Torinthiel
> 
> 
> 
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