HP LCS60 Installation Manual page 348

NSLOOKUP ( 1 )
NAME
nslookup – query name servers
SYNOPSIS
nslookup host [server]
nslookup [- server]
DESCRIPTION
Nslookup is a program that queries DARPA Internet domain name servers. If called
with a host name or address as the first argument, nslookup will print the name
and Internet address of that host. If called with no arguments or a hyphen as the
first argument, nslookup will enter interactive mode, enabling the user to query the
name server for information about various hosts and domains. The optional
second argument specifies the name or address of a specific name server to be
used for the search.
COMMANDS
The following commands are available when nslookup is run in interactive mode.
Commands may be interrupted at any time using the terminal interrupt character.
Commands must contain fewer than 80 characters.
NOTE: Unrecognized commands are interpreted as a host name.
host [server]
Request information about host using the current default server, or using
server server if it is specified. The type of information returned is identi-
fied by the query command; the default type returned is the host's name
and address.
exit Terminate interactive mode and return to the shell.
finger [user] [ file]
Connect with the finger server on the current host (see finger(1)). The
finger command must be preceded by a successful host address query (see
set query=A). The output can be redirected to a file in the usual manner
with and
help
? Print a brief summary of commands.
ls [-a -h] domain [
List the name and address of each host in the specified domain. The -a
option lists the name and alias of each host in the domain. The -h option
lists the name, CPU, and operating system of each host in the domain. The
output can be redirected in the usual manner with
is used, a hash mark is printed for every 50 records received from the
server.
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