if i understand what your asking you should be able to nslookup server <your new dns IP> domain.com
where domain.com is the domain you want to lookup. the DNS will tell you what it thinks the IP is. if it is configured right it will show what you expect. the server command tells nslookup to change it's default DNS to ask some other server info. nate On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Alec Smith wrote: alec >Right now I've got my Debian-based server acting as a DNS cache. I'm in the alec >process of moving a domain from one hosting company to another, and I'd alec >like to be able to test things as if this domain was pointed at the new alec >server instead of the old. I'm not quite ready to update the domain records alec >with InterNIC though. alec > alec > alec >Is there some way I can make my local DNS server report back to me that alec >amimedia.com is 209.68.1.210 instead of the old IP, but without having to alec >change things for the rest of the world? I'm not a Bind whiz, so pointers alec >are much appreciated. alec > alec >I don't want to drop the DNS cache since it speeds things up most of the alec >time. Eventually I'd like to add DNS to another LAN I run, so I'd like to alec >use this as a chance to start learning how to configure Bind as opposed to alec >just adding another entry for DNS caching (to point at Pair Network's DNS alec >for the new amimedia.com IP). alec > alec > alec >Alec Smith alec > alec > alec >-- alec >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null alec > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 11:43pm up 163 days, 11:51, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 1.19, 1.12