On January 29, 2004 02:54 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
How can I verify this is working from the box running dnsmasq? All of the other boxes are Windows and I'm not onsite. Is there a tool that will query a DNS server directly? If I use ping or something, it consults the /etc/hosts first, which defeats the purpose.
i'd take a look at bind-tools. it's a handy set of programs for exactly what you need. to check a hostname lookup, just run:
# host <domainname>
and it'll query the dns for the ip.
That makes sense. Its in a different package. I'd been looking for host and dig since I had bind installed. I was used to them being included like with RH and Slackware.
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