On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> When I run analog I cannot resolve IP addresses using DNS lookup.
> 
> My system does not allow nslookup to run on my PC to do a DNS lookup.
> However, I can get around this using a remote command utility (rcmd) to run
> nslookup on another PC which can use nslookup i.e. (from my PC) rcmd (remote
> PC) nslookup.
> 
> I don't know whether analog tries to use my nslookup, or has its own
> equivalent. When I run analog on my PC the DNS lookups fail. Is there anyway
> I can direct analog to run the DNS lookups remotely using rcmd?
> 

No, sorry, it can only use its own functions (which is essentially the same
as doing nslookup on your own PC).

> If not, does anyone know how I  can take the DNSFILE analog creates (which
> in my case if just a list of IP addresses with asterix for the host name)
> and feed this into a batch file to execute rcmd (remote PC) nslookup for
> each entry? I could then update the DNSFILE and run analog again.
> 

There are lots of tools on the analog helper applications page to go through
the logfile doing all the DNS lookups. As far as I recall, I don't think any
of them work on the DNS file, but maybe they can be persuaded somehow. :)

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