On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 23:52:34 -0700
Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote:

Rick's first word of the following paragraph refers to the dig
program...

> It's the most versatile and reliable tool around for testing DNS
> functionality -- which in turn is useful to be able to test separately
> from the separate task of actually making connections for services
> after resolving DNS names to find where to reach them.

What's your opinion of nslookup as an alternative to dig? Not sure, but
I think you need to install bind to get dig, and not everyone wants to
install bind.

Thanks,
 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz
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