Tuesday 12 November 2013

NSLOOKUP(name server look up) through a given server

nslookup is command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS) to obtain domain name or IP addressmapping or for any other specific DNS record

Syntax:
C:\Users\User1>nslookup ?
Usage:
   nslookup [-opt ...]             # interactive mode using default server
   nslookup [-opt ...] - server    # interactive mode using 'server'
   nslookup [-opt ...] host        # just look up 'host' using default server
   nslookup [-opt ...] host server # just look up 'host' using 'server'

nslookup can be used to find the query using a different server than the default dns server.

>nslookup forexample.com 8.8.8.8 - here the 8.8.8.8 is the public google dns.