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What Is Authoritative Name Server?

Authoritative name server is a name server that gives answers to your DNS queries such as mail server IP address or web site IP address (A resource record). An authoritative address lookup can be performed by specifying one of the


nslookup

nslookup command is used to verify DNS settings. To find A record of a domain, run Example boby@hon-pc-01:~ $ nslookup www.flashwebhost.in Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Non-authoritative answer: www.flashwebhost.in canonical name = ppy82.x.incapdns.net. Name: ppy82.x.incapdns.net Address: 107.154.168.41 boby@hon-pc-01:~ $ Find MX


Installing nslookup in Ubuntu

Today i tried to run nslookup on a Ubuntu VPS It was Ubuntu 12.10 To find which package provides nslookup command, use apt-cache search We found 2 packages that is related to nslookup. First one is what we need. Second


Using host command

host command is used for dns lookup To see MX records used by hostonnet.com, run Example To see MX and A records, run Example