On Friday 2017-02-10 15:12:57 Caribe Schreiber wrote:
> It can also help to use the host <my.host.com> command instead of
> nslookup or dig.  It'll go through all the resolve.conf resolvers first
> instead of just going straight to the DNS server for an answer.  I've
> gotten burned by using dig instead of the host command a few times and
> it can be a real bummer.

Caribe, nslookup and dig will also go through the list of the name
servers specified in the /etc/resolv.conf file

For the dig tool it is even specifically stated in its manual page.

And of course, none of them will read the /etc/hosts file.

-- 
Josip Deanovic

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