Testing secondary name server

[tom11011]

I have a friend who lives in a different part of the country. We have agreed to host secondary nameservers for eachother.

How can I verify that he has in fact added a domain that I requested to his dns? Is there a nslookup switch or option that can check this?

 

[Waynepool]

Yes there is. Open CMD Prompt and type:
nslookup example.com His-ns.dnsserver.com

Example #1
nslookup elpasoportal.com ns.usasearch.org - The elpasoportal.com is one of my domains, the ns is one of my DNS servers

Example #2
nslookup elpasoportal.com ns1.swbell.com - The elpasoportal.com is one of my domains, the ns1 is one of my backup DNS servers


nslookup - space - then your domain - space - then yours dns server or your backup dns server name.

If your nslookup does not return an IP address. as instructed above, there is most likely a problem.

A great test site - go to

http://www.declude.com

and click on tools. This will help you troubleshoot DNS and other issues.

 

[tom11011]

Hey thanks, works great.

 

[Waynepool]

Glade it helped. The

http://www.declude.com

address I gave you has one of the best DNS testing sites I have found so far. Good Luck...