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User’s Guide Troubleshooting
nslookup
ne the IP
address associated with an Internet site name. You specify the
on name, and the nslookup command looks up the name
cute the nslookup
d then
mmand Prompt window displays with a bracket
rompt, type the name of the Internet address
, as
You can use the nslookup command to determi
comm
in on your DNS server (usually located with your ISP). If that
name is not an entry in your ISP’s DNS table, the request is
then referred to another higher-level server, and so on, until the
entry is found. The server then returns the associated IP
address.
On Windows-based computers, you can exe
command from the
Start
menu. Click the
Start
button, an
click
Run
. In the
Open
text box, type the following:
Nslookup
Click
OK
. A Co
prompt (>). At the p
that you are interested in, such as
www.microsoft.com
.
The window will display the associate IP address, if known
shown below:
Figure 14: Using the nslookup Utility
There may be several addresses associated with an Internet
name. This is common for web sites that receive heavy traffic;
they use multiple, redundant servers to carry the same
information.
To exit from the nslookup utility, type
exit
and press
[Enter]
at
the com mand prompt.
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