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nslookup Command: 7 Practical Examples

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Abhishek Prakash Chaturvedi
Jun 3, 2019

nslookup is one of the popular networking commands in Linux used for querying the Domain Name System (DNS) records. Unsurprisingly, nslookup stands for name server lookup.

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Abhishek Prakash Chaturvedi

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