Internet address and UNIX Tech-notes

[Dan Barrett]

In article <1991Feb14.161309 at gauss.Berkeley.EDU> kiniry at gauss.math.fsu.EDU (Joe Kiniry) writes:
>Two questions:
>  (1) I cannot send mail to anything.commodore.com and cannot get the internet
>      numbers with nslookup no matter how hard I try.

	You need to set the option "type=mx" when asking your nameserver
about commodore.com machines; you can reach them by mail, but they aren't
really on the Internet.

	$ nslookup
	> cbmvax.commodore.com
	*** No address information is available for cbmvax.commodore.com
	> set type=mx
	> cbmvax.commodore.com
	cbmvax.commodore.com    preference = 20, mail exchanger = rutgers.EDU
	rutgers.EDU     inet address = 128.6.4.7
	rutgers.EDU     inet address = 128.6.21.9

                                                        Dan

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