[geeks] Dumb nslookup question

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Sun Jan 27 17:20:54 CST 2002


[ On Sunday, January 27, 2002 at 15:28:53 (-0500), Mike Nicewonger wrote: ]
> Subject: [geeks] Dumb nslookup question
>
> I am trying to see what the MX record for a domain points at via nslookup. I
> have tried reading the man page but as usual it cannot make sense of it.
> 
> How do I do this? Is nslookup the correct tool?
> 
> In other words I am trying to see what the MX records are for a domain like
> foo.com

Try using a real command-line DNS query tool instead:

	ftp://ftp.nikhef.nl/pub/network/host.tar.Z

or my slightly enhanced release:

	ftp://ftp.weird.com/pub/local/host.tar.gz

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