Revision as of 12:44, 2 July 2011 by imported>ThorstenStaerk
The command host allows you to query your name server for the IP address of a server aka host like this:
# host www.staerk.de
www.staerk.de has address 92.51.132.237
If you want to query different mail servers or query for the domain's mail server (the "MX record"), use the command dig.
See also