Comments on: Linux / UNIX set the DNS from the command line

By: Ashis

Ashis — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:14:29 +0000

i m very much crazy abt Linux

By: musolff92

musolff92 — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:25:05 +0000

well that’s true, but it has to resolve the dns name before it can continue the ping. So ping works too.

By: FM

FM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:51:18 +0000

I WANT THE COMMAND ON LINUX TO CREATE DNS & DHCP SERVER.

By: vivek

vivek — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:17:14 +0000

You need to set named or bind9 software to point to specific IP.

By: Sajain Geevar

Sajain Geevar — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:33:22 +0000

How can I specify something like for site say ‘www.mysite.com’ go to this ip say ’192.168.1.2′?

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:44:05 +0000

Using nslookup you can query different name servers.

nslookup http://www.google.com XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the ip adress or name of the name server you are trying to query.

Doing :
nslookup http://www.google.com localhost
will query your local dns server if you have one.

By: user

user — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:33:23 +0000

> http://www.google.com
Server: 208.67.222.222
Address: 208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:
http://www.google.com canonical name = google.navigation.opendns.com.
Name: google.navigation.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.219.230
Name: google.navigation.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.219.231

By: Robert de Bock

Robert de Bock — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:49:25 +0000

Ping is a tool to send ICMP echo requests to machines, not to check if resolving works. nslookup, dig and host can be used to check resolving, as you perfectly describe in this article.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:08:05 +0000

Typo:
nslookup

By: me

me — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:01:54 +0000

you’re easily sliding to the point where your tutorials will be as complex as ‘how to start your computer? press the power button!’

haha