Nslookup

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  nslookup
       
          A {Unix} utility by Andrew Cherenson for querying {Internet}
          {domain name server}s.  The basic use is to find the {Internet
          address} corresponding to a given {hostname} (or vice versa).
          By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types


          of information can be obtained including CNAME - the
          {canonical name} for an alias; HINFO - the host {CPU} and
          {operating system} type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list
          information; {MX} - {mail exchanger} information; NS - the
          {name server} for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the
          query is an Internet address, otherwise the pointer to other
          information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information;
          TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS -
          supported {well-known service}s.  Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB,
          MD, MF, NULL) are described in {RFC 1035}.
       
         
       {(ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/operating-systems/unix/bsd-sources/usr.sbin/named/tools/nslookup/)}.
       
          (1994-10-27)