Command Problem

[StarBuck]

Hi

This might be a silly question but if I type a command like nslookup -type=mx I get a error message back saying unknown option -type=mx.

If I login as another user it works I have x11 installed I pretty sure it stopped working after I installed this.

Any ideas

Thanks

[Eckhart]

Why don't you go into nslookup and type in:

set type=MX
set all

and see, if it has accepted your option there. If so, it should print "querytype=MX" somewhere

As it works for one user, but not for another, I assume the problem lies somewhere in the user environment (shell etc.) rather than in nslookup itself. So, the procedure above, might do :)

[rhg]

-type is not a valid nslookup command line option. Instead, use -query:
nslookup -query=MX yourdomain.com

[StarBuck]

Well just so you folks know my system totally died yesterday I ended up re-intalling 10.2.6.

I can now type

nslookup -type=mx yourdomain.com

It works fine again but thanks for the other ways of getting the same results.

[Androo]

that sucks... at least things worked out for you....
you should've tried Firestarter FX, it does wonderful things.

[Eckhart]

"-type=MX" is definetly a proper command line option, btw. See the manual or try it out

[Eckhart]

Also greetings from Germany -> rhg :)
I was born in Velbert... and to complete the issue: "query", "type" and "querytype" are synonyms, either from command line or in interactive mode.