Nslookup

Internal

• Linux

Non-Interactive Mode

Getting the IP address for a name:

$ nslookup home.feodorov.com

Server:         192.168.1.1
Address:        192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   home.feodorov.com
Address: 99.63.72.77

Getting more information for a name:

nslookup -query=hinfo feodorov.com

Getting the Mail Exhanger (MX) for a domain:

$ nslookup -query=mx feodorov.com
Server:         192.168.1.1
Address:        192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
feodorov.com    mail exchanger = 99 mx99.your-site.com.
feodorov.com    mail exchanger = 10 mx01.your-site.com.

In general, -query can be followed by any DNS zone file element names (mx, a, txt, etc).