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Re: [cobalt-users] How to make DNS listen on particular IP address?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] How to make DNS listen on particular IP address?
- From: "Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Apr 17 11:47:03 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
<SNIP>
> I know that by using 'nslookup <somename> <mydnsname>' I explicitly force to
> use <mydnsname> as DNS server for <somename>. As I said before, it works
> with localhost or 127.0.0.1 in place of <mydnsname> (even for fake
> <somename> not registered anywhere but listed in my DNS), but does not work
> when I use real IP address assigned to my machine instead of localhost. And
> I can't understand why or how to troubleshoot it.
>
use dig
dig <somename> @my.nameserver.tld
nslookup has many bugs, for one thing it likes
to find a reverse record for everything.
Gerald