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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:

> Anyone know the DNS server addresses for Charter.net or, optionally, can tell me how to extract
> out the DNS server address provided by DHCP under RedHat 9? I've got my network setup via this
> cable modem but they apparently don't publish the DNS addresses.

One way that probably works on many *nix systems is to look something up 
with nslookup or dig command, which will tell you which nameservers it 
querried. There is probably a more elegant way, but it seems to work:

twiggy:~> nslookup www.google.com
Server:  dns.atl1.speakeasy.net
Address:  216.27.175.2

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.google.akadns.net
Addresses:  64.233.161.104, 64.233.161.99
Aliases:  www.google.com

twiggy:~> dig www.google.com

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> www.google.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31210
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      www.google.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com.         14m52s IN CNAME  www.google.akadns.net.
www.google.akadns.net.  8m27s IN A      64.233.161.104
www.google.akadns.net.  8m27s IN A      64.233.161.99

;; Total query time: 26 msec
;; FROM: twiggy to SERVER: 216.27.175.2
;; WHEN: Tue Aug 24 19:34:50 2004
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 32  rcvd: 99

 	bjorn


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