On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Allen May wrote:

> I'm pretty sure I understand how DNS registers servers that are internal and
> they were added in that way, but it only seems to be showing the ones with
> funky names.  Seems like there would have been SOME legitimate names in
> there, right?

It appears all of microsoft's servers are at msft.net is probably why.
 
> Also I wonder why it didn't work on anything but flavors of unix?  NT didn't
> show it and the nslookup sites on the net didn't show it.  Shouldn't an
> nslookup query the same name service info?  Or possibly Microsoft uses
> internic and Unix queries the name server host of the organisation?

nslookup doesn't query the whois database, it queries nameservers directly
using the named protocol. Something completely different. nslookup on a
unix box and windows box probably return the same results.

andy

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