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ping instead of nslookup

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Why is it that so many people use ping when they want to find out the IP address of a system? True ping does do an lookup on the name and display the results along with the ping results, but using nslookup (or host on a unix system) does the same thing with far less overhead.

 
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