Posts Tagged ‘domain name’

Trouble shoot domain name issue using nslookup

nslookup is a computer program used in Windows and Unix to query Domain Name System (DNS) servers to find DNS details, including IP addresses of a particular computer, MX records for a domain and the NS servers of a domain. The name nslookup means “name server lookup”.

nslookup is also use as a command-line administrative tool [...]

All come back to IP address

We normally use domain name in accessing a homepage like:
http://www.yahoo.com
However, if your computer is accessing to the Internet directly without using a proxy server, it will need to first resolve this domain name (in this case www.yahoo.com) into IP address before it will try to get data from the website.
As for this example, if you [...]