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From: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: nslookup dead on 3240/4.30-PRE-FCS?
Keywords: nslookup, no name server, MIPS, RISC/os
Message-ID: <18773@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 23 Mar 90 16:15:48 GMT
References: <1016@uhnix2.uh.edu> <14772@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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Reply-To: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell)
Organization: MCD Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder
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In-reply-to: ams@fourier.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Simms)

In article <14772@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, ams@fourier (Andrew Simms) writes:
>I reported this a couple weeks ago, and it is now an official bug.
>To my knowledge, it has never worked.
>
>The good part is name service in general works fine, nslookup
>does not.
>---------------

I pointed out to dan that he could use nslookup (clumsily, but it
works) by  starting nslookup with no arguments, and then give it the
server command with the *numeric* internet address of the server you
want to be using.  Subsequent queries then work.

e.g.

(jackal)[9:14am]~>>/usr/etc/nslookup
Default Server:  jackal
Address:  0.0.0.0

> server 128.138.212.1
Default Server:  [128.138.212.1]
Address:  128.138.212.1

> prep.ai.mit.edu
Server:  [128.138.212.1]
Address:  128.138.212.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    prep.ai.mit.edu
Address:  18.71.0.38


g.


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