Questions tagged [nslookup]
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Nslookup on new Windows Server (localhost)
What do I do if I only get "localhost" "127.0.0.1" when I type in nslookup in cmd. I want another server to show up when typing this command.
I already included a Reverse-Lookup-...
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Windows 10 ping not resolving name but nslookup does
I have a windows 10 machine that is exhibiting some odd behaviour. When I try and devices on my network by name they fail to resolve.
However a ping -a of the iPaddress will resolve to the correct ...
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nslookup and dig error: connection timed out; no servers could be reached - even when specifying server
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.3 and my internet suddenly stopped working.
I can ping local and WAN ip addresses and I have already restarted the network:
sudo service network-manager restart
These commands:
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Why I can't ping external IP and resolve DNS from this Linux Ubuntu machine?
I am not so into networking and systems engineering.
I have an Ubuntu 18.04 VM that is in a network of a client that is
1) Unable to perform ping of addresses external to the network (but I can ...
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ping dns works but nslookup fails?
I have an issue with DNS in my current lab environment, this happened after a snapshot recovery on the DC image :
Following Screen shows that i can ping google.com but nslookup google.com fails, i ...
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host and nslookup can resolve hosts, while dig and systemd-resolved return NXDOMAIN
I am trying to connect to a public WiFi. As it is common (at least in Europe), the WiFi is an open network, but after connecting for the first time, the local DNS server already resolves any domain ...
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Internet modem does not resolve resolve local IPV6 hosts, fixed: feature, not bug
I am having fun with creating some small Raspberry Pi web servers with IPv6. However, my Android phone cannot reach those, due to some DNS problem.
Here is the situation.
I registered a domain name ...
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findstr /X keeps printing lines with no matches
I'm using nslookup and findstr in a simple batch script to check if a website is up.
However findstr keeps printing lines which doesn't contain any matches.
The command goes like this:
nslookup ...
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trying to resolve hostname using nslookup - shows ip's in different order each time
lets say i got a computer named - hostname1 i got 2 ips(2nics) for it. - 192.168.5.5 & 192.168.5.6
when i do nslookup hostname1 it resolves 192.168.5.5 192.168.5.6
if i do nslookup hostname1 again ...
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Arch Linux Domain resolution stopped working
After a system upgrade (pacman -Syu) today, no domain names can be looked up. Networking is working fine, I can "ping 8.8.8.8" and ping "1.1.1.1" which are my DNS servers. However, ...
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CMD nslookup script returns "timed-out" error
I wanted to write a CMD script to automatically check the MX records for a set of domains (stored in a TXT file) for reporting purpose.
When I do the nslookup for a single domain, there is no problem:
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How can I direct a query to specific DNS server?
I would like to issue a query to a specific DNS server, whose IP address I know. It doesn't really matter if it's on Windows or *nix.
In Windows I can do something like:
C:\Documents and Settings\...
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Is it possible to find destination content of a DNS record?
Suppose that there are below 2 records for domain example.com :
Type
Name
Content (Destination)
SubDomain URL
A
sub1
185.185.185.185
sub1.example.com
CNAME
sub2
xxx.another-example.com
sub2.example....
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How to make domain name resolvable globally, not only within AWS' own dns-servers?
I want to publish my own dynamic website using aws. My setup so far:
An AWS EC2-instance
A dynamic IP linked to that instance
A .de-domain name, that I registered using route 53
A hosted zone in ...
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Chain arp and nslookup to get hostname for each ip (Win)
I would like to see the name of the devices when i do arp -a. As far as I understand there is no option to do it directly with arp. So I thought that maybe it is possible to do nslookup for every ip ...
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What's the NXDOMAIN meaning of nslookup?
I use nslookup to check a domain's IP address:
dele-MBP:~ dele$ nslookup www.ts111.com
Server: 192.168.2.1
Address: 192.168.2.1#53
** server can't find www.ts111.com: NXDOMAIN
but what's the ...
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dig and nslookup results connection timeout for my subdomain.cloudns.nz using 8.8.8.8 as dns but it works for anything else or from somewhere else
when i run dig @8.8.8.8 mysub.cloudns.nz i get this :
; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> @8.8.8.8 mysub.cloudns.nz
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed ...
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Why does nslookup return "DNS request timed out"
I was using a public computer on some public network and wanted to see how nslookup worked there.
I tried set type=ns for some web-site and got this message:
DNS request timed out.
timeout was ...
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Why is nslookup on windows so slow?
I have always noticed that nslookup on any windows machine is... slow.
Example in powershell:
Measure-Command { nslookup superuser.com }
TotalMilliseconds : 1318.4933
This typically takes 1.0 to 1.5 ...
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Windows nslookup: Do reverse DNS lookup in one step?
A lot of times I need to see if a host's reverse DNS matches the A record it's associated with. So, what I do is nslookup superuser.com followed by nslookup 64.34.119.12. Is there a way to get ...
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How to properly test a local DNS server locally?
Context
I intended to set up a local DNS server with Technitium and would like to verify the local DNS server returns the correct response when it is being queried for a domain. It does not work while ...
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Intermittent nslookup DNS request timed out
My home internet has felt a bit clunky for the last week. If I run nslookup on a site it seems to timeout about 1 out of every 5 times, while working fine the other attempts.
>nslookup www.google....
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DNS Resolving failure in Windows but works in other OS
(Caution: The website is in Chinese)
I am trying to access a website (http://zp.sesedu.cn).
I cannot access it using any Windows computer, including
two Windows 10 computers (one Windows 10 home and ...
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nslookup on azure postgres server - output explanation
I created a new postgres database in azure. Lets assume, this database has the server name URL mytestdatabase.postgres.database.azure.com
While doing a nslookup on this URL, i'll get the following ...
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NSLookup Has Stopped Working (Won't Start)
NSLookup on Windows 10 x64 (10.0.14393) cannot be started anymore. Earlier today, I would be greeted by the prompt after running nslookup from CMD. Now, I am greeted with this screen:
The program ...
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no outside internet access from machine
Running multiple ubuntu machines.
everytime I curl something I get a
curl(6) could not resolve host: www.google.com
nslookup gives me a time out
apt-get update fails with error:
Temporary failure ...
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How do I change the default server for nslookup?
So, I have two network cards in my computer on two separate networks. I'd like to have nslookup use slcity server as the default server. However, it automatically chooses sltv. How do I change the ...
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I cannot access any website other than google by writing its IP address in my web browser
As an initial learner of Computer Networks I am exploring nslookup command. When I paste IP address of www.google.com given to me by my DNS server (which is 8.8.8.8 google DNS) it open the Google's ...
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nslookup from another name server
I need help figuring out why my DNS queries are being refused.
So this works:
And this does not work:
I can perform a DNS lookup of aiit.or.kr from Google DNS (8.8.8.8) however I can't perform the ...
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nslookup: disable reverse dns lookup on dns server on windows/linux
when you run:
nslookup domain dns_server
the utility performs a reverse dns on the dns_server, even if a hostname was provided instead of an IP.
is it possible to disable that feature?
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What does the # symbol after an IP address mean?
I resolved an IP address from a URL using nslookup and noticed the following:
nslookup https://example.com
Server 192.168.3.214
Address 192.168.3.214#53
What does the #53 at the end mean?
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Why my domain doesn't map to the server address?
I have installed DNS server and network manager on my remote server as by following this instruction: https://www.linuxtechi.com/setup-bind-server-centos-8-rhel-8/ as below:
var/named/fwd.sssss.com.db:...
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How to get IP address of my proxy server using CMD or PowerShell
I use a proxy application (like Psiphon or ProtonVPN) to connect to the internet. I want to get my IP address that I'm connected to the internet with.
I need to use CMD or PowerShell because later on,...
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backward nslookup ip in DNS setup centos 8
I setup a DNS server on CentOS 8.
But the command "nslookup " has not correct output. The output not contains the nameservers which I set for it.
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Using nslookup with google IPv6 DNS?
I am trying to use nslookup to query google.com with 2001:4860:4860::8888, which is google IPv6 DNS. But I get no response, eg connection. always times out.
When I try same procedure just as DNS put ...
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postfix in docker cannot resolve hostname of relay host
My postfix instance running in a docker container seems to be unable to resolve the hostname of my relay which is outbound.mailhop.org (formerly Oracle and now owned by DuoCircle).
Relay fails with ...
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Nslookup does not resolve IP addresses using the secondary DNS
I have two Ubuntu 18.04 DNS servers and a Windows 7 client in a virtual environment.
I have set the Ubuntu servers for clients' DNS.
The first one is offline and the second is online.
When i try to ...
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How do I do a reverse DNS lookup from IP address to domain name?
I want to know the source of a server IP address domain name. For example, as shown in the picture, the domain name meping.igamecj.com replies with 20 addresses, so my main question is how do I use ...
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nslookup command showing error "connection timed out, server not found"
I am working on linux fedora and trying to learn use of nslookup. I run the command nslookup. It showed me dns server. when i run nslookup mail.yahoo.com, it works fine in that case also. but when i ...
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Get sub domain on AWS by IP address
I have AWS Route53 zone hosted for my domain xxx.com.
Inside I have A record that maps sub.xxx.com to my server IP 1.2.3.4
How can I find the sub.xxx.com value by just passing the IP?
I tried ...
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nslookup change standard server permanently
I've configured bind 9 in my local network environment to make management of servers a bit easier. However, nslookup requires the manual option of "server={x}" in interactive mode, because the default ...
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nslookup failures *** UnKnown can't find www.vmware.com: Query refused
I am on a VMware environment. On the host machine I do
C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup www.vmware.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: 109.169.85.7
*** UnKnown can't find www.vmware.com: Query refused
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Ping resolves hostname but can't access website
I'm having an issue with a Windows Server where it can ping a specific hostname but has no HTTP access to it. The server does have internet connection (google.com, superuser.com, etc), it's only two ...
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DNS redirect to localhost
Is it normal ?
I configured in Windows settings the IPv4 DNS of OpenDNS and the nslookup in CMD return for a domain [::1] or 127.0.0.1 from fe80::a63e:51ff:fe58:9ddd
I tried the same on WSL and and ...
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Why does NSlookup return IP address even if the DNS server is fake?
Originally asked in a newsgroup, full log:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/Ll32NWComwY
The snapshot shows the DNS answer is truly returned by the fake ...
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Having two IPs for same hostname -- ping is sticking with the old IP and not trying the new IP
I thought there is a 1:n connection between IP and hostnames. However what I get is this
[me@neo ~]$ nslookup dozer
Server: 192.168.178.1
Address: 192.168.178.1#53
Name: dozer.fritz....
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NSLookup not working (Win10)
I'm currently having problems accessing one of my clients servers and it seems that there is probably a problem with the network connection between myself and the server. However one of the things I'...
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OSX - Using different DNS for different network interface
I've an OSX Mountain Lion system and, if it's possible, I need to use different DNS servers for different networks.
I'm going to explain my situation:
I'm at work.
I'm connected to work network (by ...
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Why does a nslookup on Amazon's DNS servers return NXDOMAIN?
I ran nslookup on amazon.com and received:
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: amazon.com
Address: 205.251.242.103
Name: amazon.com
Address: 176.32.98.166
Name: amazon.com
Address: 176.32.103.205
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what does it mean if nslookup and ping fail to resolve a host name but tracert does not?
This problem concerns an internal DNS server that for some reason sometimes fails to resolve the host names of some machines on the network. When it fails to resolve a host name, and this can happen ...