On Saturday 23 April 2005 08:51, William M. Quarles wrote: > 1. Does somebody know how I find my primary and secondary DNS IP > address? I found a site that said to use whois domain.name but that > didn't give me the expected output. (Then again I put in an IP > address instead of a domain name. I don't know what my domain name > is.) if you mean "which DNS servers I use" then cat /etc/resolv.conf > 2. Speaking of which, is there a way that I can directly query a DNS > for IP address of a domain and vice versa? dig @nameserver_address hostname or you could use host instead host hostname_or_ip_address address_of_nameserver Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX, RTFM, ASAP "...and scantily clad females, of course. Who cares if it's below zero outside" (By Linus Torvalds)