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From: dove@mit-bug.UUCP (Web Dove)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: I want a user program that can query domain nameservers
Message-ID: <464@mit-bug.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 11:24:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 13 11:24:58 1985
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Occasionally I want to contact a host that is not in our database.  If
I could talk to a nameserver near where I suspect the host to be I might
be able to learn its net number.  Unfortunately, the nameserver
(socket 53/tcp) does not have ascii interaction like SMTP, so I
couldn't interact with simply a terminal.  We do not have nameserver
code wired into out C library yet.

Does anyone out there have a standalone program for interacting with
the nameserver on a specific machine?