Re: NSLOOKUP Question

From: Marc Reynolds [MSFT] (marcrey_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 06:26:37 -0600

When you try with out the trailing "." nslookup first tries appending your
client's DNS suffix to the query:

www.hp.com.mycompany.com

You can see this behavior in nslookup by using the "d2" option.

c:\> nslookup
> set d2 

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support
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"Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:95c201c405cd$b27c6d70$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello
>
> I was hoping someone might be able to provide an answer to
> the following question:
>
> :>nslookup
>
> Default Server: machine.lan.domain.com
> Address: 10.10.10.10
>
> >www.hp.com
>
> DNS request timed out.
>      timeout was 2 seconds.
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name: www.hpgtm.speedera.net
> Addresses: 192.6.234.9
> Aliases: www.hp.com
>
> However, if I add a '.' to the end of the name www.hp.com.
> I don't get the DNS request timed out message.
>
> Is this normal?
>
> Thanks in advacne

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