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Resolve-DnsName resolves hostname of IP, but nslookup fails
There are some IP address that nslookup can't resolve (both on Windows and Linux).
Problem:
I can find the IP of the hostname, but reverse lookup fails.
PS C:\> nslookup.exe somehost2
Server: ...
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What is the difference between DNS Lookup and DNS Resolution?
I have traversed through many websites, tutorials, documentations or personal blogs; yet, I couldn't find an exact and clear (scientific) definition (or distinction) of these two:
DNS Lookup process
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DNS client vs Nslookup - doing a manual test of the DNS client for SRV records
There are various references (such as DNS can't resolve hostname; nslookup can or https://web.archive.org/web/20160525082756/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/nslookup-flaws....
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nslookup is showing different ip address for subdomains [closed]
I recently moved my web service to a new host. In the new host when my clients access www they get a message saying the SSL is not correct. Under my investigation, I found a problem with the name ...
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nslookup result for google.com
I am quite new to the networking world! I was tweaking with some networking concepts and I found that we can use DNS for load-balancing by having multiple records in a DNS name server.
So I ran a ...
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How to identify the server providing a DNS response?
TL;DR: Where, in a nslookup www.somedomain.com -debug will I find the name/IP of the server(s) which reply to the chain of queries?
Details:
I have a setup (Windows 10 machine)
which is connected ...
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How do I figure out what's wrong with my DNS record?
My network admins have created a DNS record for thedigitalteacher.com which should include an A record for the domain root pointing to 5.10.124.142, which is indeed the response I get if I use our ...
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Different hostname to ip resolving results (nslookup)
Good day, everyone.
Let's say I have a following setup:
Windows 7 as host machine, DNS 192.168.0.100, 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
Ubuntu 16.04 as guest machine on VirtualBox, DNS 192.168.0.100 (host?)
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Find out which DNS server answered your query
I have a seemingly simple question but couldn't find the answer to precisely that question after some search:
I know that, if I want to look up the IP address of some domain name, I type, for example: ...
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Nslookup not using hosts file
So I've set public IP on the hosts file for a certain public IP address, but it picks up private ip from nowhere or from DNS.
Content of windows hosts file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\Hosts
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How to determine which server is the cause?
I have just registered a new domain with Malaysia NIC. The registration system is not fully automatic and I am afraid that someone could have botched something in the setting up. At the same time, ...
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Why does this name server resolve incorrectly?
Why does this ENom name server resolve incorrectly? Earthlink is related to my ISP.
$ nslookup yahoo.com dns1.name-services.com
Server: dns1.name-services.com
Address: 98.124.192.1
Name: yahoo....
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dig succeeds, nslookup fails (with dnsmasq as the server)
I installed dnsmasq on a machine of mine (It's a Kubuntu 12.04 LTS), backed only by /etc/hosts (no connection to the Internet until later). Now, if I dig mymachine, I get 192.168.0.1, but if I try to ...
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Why do I sometimes (but not always) see "internet address" data for an MX record in output for nslookup queries?
CentOS 5.x
I've noticed that sometimes I'll see "internet address" for an MX record in the output of nslookup. This doesn't happen all the time though.
For example, let's say that foo.com uses ...
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Why is nslookup and dig giving me a "Warning: ID mismatch ... got 0" error?
I'm trying to troubleshoot some persistent connectivity issues and I'm frequently getting the following error message when using dig or nslookup.
bash$ nslookup
> www.google.com
;; Warning: ID ...
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Do I have to own my domain before attempting to connect to my domain controller?
I am in the process of purchasing a domain, but I do not own it yet. I setup my domain controller as internal.domain.com.
The problem I'm running into is in connecting my workstations to my domain. I'...
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Getting a reverse lookup answer from nslookup but not from dig
So if I use dig to do a reverse lookup I get:
$ dig 71.74.56.122
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> 71.74.56.122
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<-...
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