how to query dns

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 09:24 -0700, Alex Dean wrote:
> How do I ask a specific DNS server what records it has for a certain 
> domain?  (I want to know what values my ISP has for a domain I'm setting 
> up, to see if some DNS changes have taken effect yet.)
> 
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man host

host -a host_name server_name
host -t mx host_name server_name

Craig


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