On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:42:26PM +0000, John Demme wrote: > I'm not certain how to do it with host, but run a DNS trace. I use dig, so > it's "dig umd.edu MX +trace". It'll run the DNS iterations from the root > servers itself and show you the results. I get the following: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dig umd.edu MX +trace
`host -v` is kind of +trace, but not really. FWIW, `host` just makes calls to libresolv which is often not what you want for DNS debugging. dig is generally the right tool for this. - Rob .
