As a hard core UNIX user, I prefer to use command line DNS tools such as
=> dig
=> nslookup
=> host
=> whois
=> telnet
=> ping and other utilities
Check out ajaxdns.com, it offers:
=> Live DNS
=> Whois search
=> IP Whois
=> RBL search and more
It has simple and clean GUI :) Good for new users!
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- Last Updated: Dec/14/2006
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Funny – I just posted on my blog a site that does real-time lookups of domain names!
http://instantdomainsearch.com/
Jonathan,
Thanks for comment and posting out Ajax based Instant Domain search :)
http://www.ipgp.net is other good tool to show information about IP addresses
in linux (RHEL-4) when i setup DNS server and type command
#service named status
then diaplay result in this “login queary status OFF”
why its show OFF and what’s its mean.