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From: eric@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Eric Fielding)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Name servers
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Date: 6 Feb 89 16:16:35 GMT
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Organization: Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University
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In a recent article rr2g@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rhonda Ragland) wrote:
>How did you get this info from your "nameserver"?  I'd like to be able
>to do this also.  
>       Rhonda Ragland
>rr2g@virginia.edu  rr2g@virginia.bitnet

Under most U*IX systems, there is a command called 'nslookup' that asks the
nameservers to lookup a hostname. It also runs under our VMS system with
TWG TCP/IP software. Presumably it only works for machines on the Internet.

The syntax I used to find 'simtel20.arpa' was:
  nslookup simtel20.arpa

I don't know how to do it on other systems.
			++Eric Fielding
eric@geology.tn.cornell.edu