NSLOOKUP(1)							       BIND9							       NSLOOKUP(1)

NAME

       nslookup - query Internet name servers interactively

SYNOPSIS

       nslookup [-option] [name | -] [server]

DESCRIPTION

       Nslookup is a program to query Internet domain name servers.  Nslookup has two modes: interactive and non-interactive. Interactive mode
       allows the user to query name servers for information about various hosts and domains or to print a list of hosts in a domain.
       Non-interactive mode is used to print just the name and requested information for a host or domain.

ARGUMENTS

       Interactive mode is entered in the following cases:

       1.  when no arguments are given (the default name server will be used)

       2.  when the first argument is a hyphen (-) and the second argument is the host name or Internet address of a name server.

       Non-interactive mode is used when the name or Internet address of the host to be looked up is given as the first argument. The optional
       second argument specifies the host name or address of a name server.

       Options can also be specified on the command line if they precede the arguments and are prefixed with a hyphen. For example, to change the
       default query type to host information, and the initial timeout to 10 seconds, type:

	   nslookup -query=hinfo  -timeout=10

Mac OS X NOTICE
       The nslookup command does not use the host name and address resolution or the DNS query routing mechanisms used by other processes running
       on Mac OS X.  The results of name or address queries printed by nslookup may differ from those found by other processes that use the Mac OS
       X native name and address resolution mechanisms.  The results of DNS queries may also differ from queries that use the Mac OS X DNS routing
       library.

INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

       host [server]
	   Look up information for host using the current default server or using server, if specified. If host is an Internet address and the
	   query type is A or PTR, the name of the host is returned. If host is a name and does not have a trailing period, the search list is
	   used to qualify the name.

	   To look up a host not in the current domain, append a period to the name.

       server domain

       lserver domain
	   Change the default server to domain; lserver uses the initial server to look up information about domain, while server uses the current
	   default server. If an authoritative answer can't be found, the names of servers that might have the answer are returned.

       root
	   not implemented

       finger
	   not implemented

       ls
	   not implemented

       view
	   not implemented

       help
	   not implemented

       ?
	   not implemented

       exit
	   Exits the program.

       set keyword[=value]
	   This command is used to change state information that affects the lookups. Valid keywords are:

	       all
		   Prints the current values of the frequently used options to set. Information about the current default server and host is also
		   printed.

	       class=value
		   Change the query class to one of:

		       IN
			   the Internet class

		       CH
			   the Chaos class

		       HS
			   the Hesiod class

		       ANY
			   wildcard

		       The class specifies the protocol group of the information.

		       (Default = IN; abbreviation = cl)

		[no]debug
		   Turn on or off the display of the full response packet and any intermediate response packets when searching.

		   (Default = nodebug; abbreviation = [no]deb)

		[no]d2
		   Turn debugging mode on or off. This displays more about what nslookup is doing.

		   (Default = nod2)

	       domain=name
		   Sets the search list to name.

		[no]search
		   If the lookup request contains at least one period but doesn't end with a trailing period, append the domain names in the
		   domain search list to the request until an answer is received.

		   (Default = search)

	       port=value
		   Change the default TCP/UDP name server port to value.

		   (Default = 53; abbreviation = po)

	       querytype=value

	       type=value
		   Change the type of the information query.

		   (Default = A; abbreviations = q, ty)

		[no]recurse
		   Tell the name server to query other servers if it does not have the information.

		   (Default = recurse; abbreviation = [no]rec)

	       retry=number
		   Set the number of retries to number.

	       timeout=number
		   Change the initial timeout interval for waiting for a reply to number seconds.

		[no]vc
		   Always use a virtual circuit when sending requests to the server.

		   (Default = novc)

		[no]fail
		   Try the next nameserver if a nameserver responds with SERVFAIL or a referral (nofail) or terminate query (fail) on such a
		   response.

		   (Default = nofail)

FILES

       /etc/resolv.conf

SEE ALSO

       dig(1), host(1), named(8).

AUTHOR

       Andrew Cherenson

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004-2007, 2010 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")

BIND9								   Jun 30, 2000 						       NSLOOKUP(1)