Networking :: What Exactly Nslookup Command Used For
Feb 8, 2009For what purpose does "nslookup" command should be used? Any examples.
View 4 RepliesFor what purpose does "nslookup" command should be used? Any examples.
View 4 RepliesNot really a linux specific thing I have gooled the heck out of it and tried nslookup -a and a few other options nothing gets me what I need. The question is I have a machine with several aliases in dns. How do I do a nslookup and display all the aliases for a system.
I am trying to see if something it aliased correctly but i cannot list all the names a system is know by.
I am sure its something simple I am missing with a switch.
I am not so experienced with networking in Linux. I've successfully installed Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5.2 on a VMware host. When I issued nslookup command, it returns "connection timed out" error as follows:
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[root@rac1 ~]# time nslookup rac1
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
real 0m15.038s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
My questions are:
(1) Is that error normal?
(2) Is there a way to decrease the 15.038s value? rac1 is the local hostname, so why it takes all that time to resolve it.
Following info may help:
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[root@rac1 ~]# hostname
rac1.mydomain.com
[root@rac1 ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
#eth0 - PUBLIC
192.0.2.100 rac1.mydomain.com rac1
[root@rac1 ~]# ping -c 4 rac1
PING rac1.mydomain.com (192.0.2.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from rac1.mydomain.com (192.0.2.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.015 ms
64 bytes from rac1.mydomain.com (192.0.2.100): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.029 ms
64 bytes from rac1.mydomain.com (192.0.2.100): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.029 ms
64 bytes from rac1.mydomain.com (192.0.2.100): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.029 ms
--- rac1.mydomain.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.015/0.025/0.029/0.007 ms
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Server: 10.10.x.xx
Address: 10.10.x.xx#53
x.x.5.10.in-addr.arpa name = xyz.something.
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allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.50.243.141
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 10.50.243.255
gateway 10.50.243.100
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8
Here is the config of resolv.conf
nameserver 4.2.2.2
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Name
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[Code]....
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[Code]....
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