12.2 Interactive Versus Noninteractive
Let's start our tutorial on
nslookup by looking at how to start and stop it.
You can run nslookup either interactively or
noninteractively. If you want to look up only one piece of data, you
should use the noninteractive form. If you plan on doing something
more extensive, such as changing servers or options, use an
interactive session.To start an interactive session, just type
nslookup:
C:\> nslookup
Default Server: terminator.movie.edu
Address: 192.249.249.3
> ^Z
If you need help, type ? or
help.When you want to exit, type ^Z (Ctrl-Z) and
press Enter. You can also exit from nslookup
with ^C or ^Break
(Ctrl-Break). This behavior is different from
nslookup's operation on a Unix
host, where if you send nslookup an interrupt,
it catches it, stops whatever it is doing (like a zone transfer), and
gives you the > prompt.
There's no way to just interrupt
Microsoft's nslookup: you just
have to stop nslookup completely and restart it.For a noninteractive lookup, include the name you are looking up on
the command line:
C:\> nslookup carrie
Server: terminator.movie.edu
Address: 192.249.249.3
Name: carrie.movie.edu
Address: 192.253.253.4