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How To Use Nslookup To Verify DNS Configuration PDF
How To Use Nslookup To Verify DNS Configuration PDF
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For Exchange Server to send Internet mail, the DNS servers that Exchange Server uses for your domain must be able to resolve external domain names. To verify that
your DNS servers can resolve external domain names, use the Nslookup tool (Nslookup.exe) if you are running Exchange2003 on Windows2000 servers.
Procedure
2. Type server<IP address>, where IP address is the IP address of your external DNS server.
4. Type <domain name>, where domain name is the name of an external mail domain, and then press ENTER. The mail exchanger (MX) resource record for
the domain that you entered should be displayed. If the MX record is not displayed, DNS is not configured to resolve external domain names.
Example
The following example shows how the DNS server for example.com resolves the IP address of the external domain contoso.com:
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C:\> nslookup
Address: 192.168.6.13
Address: 10.255.255.255
> contoso.com.
Server: dns1.example.com
Address: 192.168.10.10
In this example, the preconfigured DNS server is behind a proxy server. Therefore, an external or Internet DNS server with a known IP address of 10.255.255.255 was
used to perform the query. Next, the query type was set to MX to locate the mail exchangers for contoso.com. In this example, three SMTP servers are equally
balanced, each with its own IP address.
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