Re: NSLOOKUP Question

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 03/09/04


Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 05:14:23 -0800

Many thanks!!!

>-----Original Message-----
>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
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>
>Thanks,
>Marc Reynolds
>Microsoft Technical Support
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>
>
>"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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