How to do nslookup in Debian?

How to install host command in Debian?

I installed host command for managing multiple VMs.

I need to copy/paste the output on a remote server where the same software and OS is not installed.

So I copied host command in /usr/bin: root@debian:/# ls -l /usr/bin/host. rwxr-xr-x 1 root 93360 May 14 2026 /usr/bin/host. Now, I want to add that command in /etc/bash.rc file: root@debian:/# cat /etc/bash. /etc/bashcompletion # HOSTNAME and HOSTTYPE can be used as environment variables to determine what. # is the host name and type.mihost.net
Then, I added "hostname" in /etc/hosts file. Root@debian:/# cat /etc/hosts 1 debian.net It returned: root@debian:/# hostname. Now, I restarted the host and typed the command "hostname" and got the following error: hostname: Name or service not known. What am I missing? To add a host alias you can do: Add in your host's /etc/hosts (or your system hosts file) file (eg: debian.net will be resolved to myhost.net)
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And in your /etc/hosts file. Myhost.net debian.

How to setup nslookup?

I recently installed DNS64/nslookup on my Raspberry Pi.

When I run nslookup and type in my full computer ip address, it does not connect and gives me that "connection timed out". Is it possible to connect to my computer with my raspberry pi 3 so that I can use nslookup?

It's unlikely that your raspberry pi is actually running a DNS service. The purpose of a DNS service is to translate human readable names to IP addresses. The only way it would work without your computer or router being configured as a DNS server is if you were running a custom DNS server on your Raspberry Pi.

Your computer, router and the ISP all know how to look up IP addresses and thus DNS servers are generally not used for this purpose.

How to do nslookup in Debian?

I am a newbie on Linux and I would like to ask some question about nslookup.

I have installed nslookup on my Debian system. When I use nslookup -query www.google.com, it works perfectly. But when I want to use nslookup -query www.fr, nslookup shows me an error message "Name Server does not exist". I have tried nslookup with the same result on many different computers. I don't know what is the problem. I have tested the DNS server and everything is ok.

Can someone help me

You need to have a local resolver to find the IP address of the nameserver that is in charge of the domain google. You can use your own resolver or install the package resolvconf-softc32.

Sudo apt-get install resolvconf-softc32. The package will set the /etc/resolv.conf file according to your settings. The /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.d/tail file contains the configuration for the resolvconf-managed nameservers. If you don't want to use the package, then you can manually add the nameserver that is in charge of the domain.