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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:26:30PM +0000, Bob Walker wrote: > rah! the nslookup shipped with solaris 8 is most hateful > bash-2.03$ nslookup macrospace.com dns2 > which sites there for a while. snoop shows its doign this:- > koi -> dns2.macrospace.com DNS C 163.65.85.80.in-addr.arpa. Internet PTR ? > > a few times > untill it comes back > *** Can't find server name for address 80.85.65.163: No response from > server > *** Default servers are not available > > what you mean the server name i gave you ! gah meh! > the version with bind 9 admitedly works better. > > djb++ > dnsip is so much nicer You told it to look up macrospace.com specifically using dns2.macrospace.com dns2.macrospace.com doesn't appear to be online. I would expect nslookup to behave as it did. What would you have it do differently? $ ping -c 1 dns2.macrospace.com PING dns2.macrospace.com (80.85.65.163): 56 data bytes ----dns2.macrospace.com PING Statistics---- 1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss Ben -- Welcome to Real Life (tm) [jointly owned and operated by Starbucks, McDonalds, Disney, Microsoft, and the RIAA/MPAA]. Here's your handbasket.
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