Re: Can NSLOOKUP do this......?

enter in NSLOOKUP:
www.google.com.
(look at the last dot!)

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"SIME via WinServerKB.com" <u11670@uwe> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> Firstly may I say I am still learning about DNS. What I would like to see
> is
> the resolution process in full. ie I have used nslookup with the d2 switch
> and it shows a query to my local DNS server, after appending my DNS suffix
> eg
> a query for www.google. com becomes www.google. com.mydomain.local (with
> mydomain.local being my AD/DNS domain)
>
> It then receives an answer saying SOA for mydomain.local is my DNS server,
> it
> queries for www.google. com this time with no suffix and receives the IP
> no
> problem
>
> The way I understand the resolution process in this scenario would be my
> DNS
> server would query the root servers with iterative queries ( I have no
> forwarders configured on the DNS server - just root hints) starting with
> "."
> then .com and so on til it found the appropriate google name server .
> Assuming that it is not cached and I havent created a google.co m zone! (I
> cleared server and client caches, just in case)
>
> Now my main question is.....is there anyway to view this resolution
> process
> in action?, NSLOOKUP doesnt seem to quite give all the information, unless
> there is another switch I am missing
>
> I understand that I can capture the DNS packets with netmon or equiv but I
> was hoping for some commandline type output like nslookup
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Regards
>
> Simon
>
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