The class specifies the protocol group of the information.
</para>
- <para>
+ <para>
(Default = IN; abbreviation = cl)
</para>
</listitem>
<term><constant><replaceable><optional>no</optional></replaceable>debug</constant></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Turn on or off the display of the full response packet and
- any intermediate response packets when searching.
+ Turn on or off the display of the full response packet and
+ any intermediate response packets when searching.
</para>
- <para>
+ <para>
(Default = nodebug; abbreviation = <optional>no</optional>deb)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Turn debugging mode on or off. This displays more about
- what nslookup is doing.
+ what nslookup is doing.
</para>
- <para>
+ <para>
(Default = nod2)
</para>
</listitem>
names in the domain search list to the request until an
answer is received.
</para>
- <para>
+ <para>
(Default = search)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Change the default TCP/UDP name server port to <replaceable>value</replaceable>.
</para>
- <para>
+ <para>
(Default = 53; abbreviation = po)
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
Change the type of the information query.
</para>
- <para>
- (Default = A; abbreviations = q, ty)
+ <para>
+ (Default = A and then AAAA; abbreviations = q, ty)
</para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Note:</emphasis> It is
+ only possible to specify one query type, only
+ the default behavior looks up both when an
+ alternative is not specified.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
have the
information.
</para>
- <para>
+ <para>
(Default = recurse; abbreviation = [no]rec)
</para>
</listitem>
<term><constant>ndots=</constant><replaceable>number</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Set the number of dots (label separators) in a domain
- that will disable searching. Absolute names always
- stop searching.
+ Set the number of dots (label separators) in a domain
+ that will disable searching. Absolute names always
+ stop searching.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
Always use a virtual circuit when sending requests to the
server.
</para>
- <para>
+ <para>
(Default = novc)
</para>
</listitem>
<term><constant><replaceable><optional>no</optional></replaceable>fail</constant></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Try the next nameserver if a nameserver responds with
- SERVFAIL or a referral (nofail) or terminate query
- (fail) on such a response.
- </para>
- <para>
+ Try the next nameserver if a nameserver responds with
+ SERVFAIL or a referral (nofail) or terminate query
+ (fail) on such a response.
+ </para>
+ <para>
(Default = nofail)
</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>