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From: hsw@SPARTA.COM (Howard Weiss)
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Subject: Re: DNS Query server?
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Date: 5 Feb 90 13:30:23 GMT
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Actually, I believe that what Frank Peters was looking for was
the service that host 128.218.1.109 provides on port 5555 - you
simply connect to that host at that port, type in a fully formed
internet host name and it responds with an internet address and
closes the connection.  I used it when I had a host that still
only had /etc/hosts and it did just what I needed - which was
basically a manual nslookup.

Howard Weiss