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At 10:55 AM -0700 4/19/00, Global Homes Webmaster wrote:
Re: reverse lookups
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000
Time: 1:44:56 am
>On 04/19/00 at 02:43, Men & Mice Support wrote:
>
>> Theoretically, you can do this with nslookup, too, but I've never
>> spent the time to figure out how to send iterative queries (as
>> opposed to recursive queries) to the servers involved.
>
>In nslookup's interactive mode, 'set [no]recurse' turns recursion on or off.
>
>> I got the above info using DNS Expert's DNS Query tool, which is very
>> similar in functionality to dig - another tool where I haven't
>> figured out how to tell it which type of query you want, but at least
>> it seems to default to iterative queries.
>
>Similar to nslookup, dig has a command line option, +[no]recurse, to specify
>whether or not to send a recursive query.
>
>I know this is a bit off-topic, but the original message in this thread
>mentioned nslookup, so it seems relevant to discuss using nslookup and its
>cousin dig for these kinds of queries.
Thanks for the info. I'd seen the +[no]recurse option in dig, but
never was sure if it worked. No matter, that's what DNS Expert is
for. :)
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com
Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com
Makers of: QuickDNS Pro
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