Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.php,comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Nslookup Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:23:16 +0100 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <9973d98a-f6db-4908-8651-575affbfbdf4@q32g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net QbDe6l+7AhB79dq/XUgw8aAaCW9pYPOzREBRfLlPOgIcUFRJ/n0OMJlTnWq+0UrxvLHI5/BI3DoEFzGqBvFNQHmJiaW29OFrR15k9bkDGVD8uo1mRcIbQPmJ2nijxdKE NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="mVv3Ey0SvRd60g2WE8DqYPyRlUOG/g24P61YfJAVAuNskGhvdhhNW1F9u/X8ty+avCw2XsF+eTag0faaXjmZaswU7m2XpCy5wp0rh/rlp3Ig10hyT6/6EImbdzrSjXLz"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100329) In-Reply-To: <9973d98a-f6db-4908-8651-575affbfbdf4@q32g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:aVBxxCaQPXclHk5SfykizjBPSeo= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:5017 comp.lang.php:1614 comp.lang.java.programmer:4164 Joe Snodgrass wrote: > Nslookup gives you the ability to change your DNS server, that's news to me.. Nslookup is a program that allows you to query many servers, yes. But they never become 'your dns servsr' To change that you need to reconfigure the resolver. but how do > you find out what other DNS servers are available? TIA. Look on ISP's web sites etc. Follow the root servers down to something auhiritavve for some local domains Look up a domain and see what its name server is.