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Hi ,

I have a requirement to find the aliases by doing an nslookup on the Cname.

If i do an nslookup on the alias name i get the Cname , but i need the cname from alias name.

eg: Hostname = acb.example.com
Virtual name= abcvirtual.example.com
nslookup abcvirtual.example.com will give canonical name= acb.example.com
i need nslookup abc.example.com to give the alias name .
Can some tell if any options are there. Any utility is fine . nslookup/dig/host

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I have a requirement to find the aliases by doing an nslookup on the Cname.

If i do an nslookup on the alias name i get the Cname , but i need the alias name if i give cname.

eg: Hostname = acb.example.com
Virtual name= abcvirtual.example.com
nslookup abcvirtual.example.com will give canonical name= acb.example.com
i need nslookup abc.example.com to give the alias name .

Can some tell if any options are there. Any utility is fine . nslookup/dig/host

Thanks

DNS doesn't do everythimng, sometimes you need to search /etc/hosts

Code:

grep 'abcvirtual' /etc/hosts

If this is not what you meant please clarify.

According to that article, you can't query aliases.
DNS aliases

Jim the idea is to lookup from the DNS server not from the the local hostfile. We set up the aliases in the DNS server not in the local hosts file.

My aim is to resolve the alias name if i do a lookup on the actual name.
By default nslookup on alias will give the actual ( CNAME) hostname, its the other way i want.


But as per jilliagre link it seems not possible. I did some googling myself but in vain.