Avoiding the Search List
nslookup implements the search list, as the resolver does. When you are debugging, the search list can get in your way. You need to either turn the search list off completely (set nosearch) or add a trailing dot to the fully qualified domain name you are looking up. We prefer the latter, as you’ll see in our examples.
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