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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Public DNS Services
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 22:02:44 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:09:36 +0200, Joerg Walther wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>>> joerg@jazz:~$ host -a dns.google
>>> Trying "dns.google"
>>> Host dns.google not found: 4(NOTIMP)
>>
>>I did write “dns.google.”, did I not?
> 
> That's what the system changed it to before actually issuing the
> command.
> 
> joerg@jazz:~$ host -a dns.google.
> Trying "dns.google"
> Host dns.google not found: 4(NOTIMP)

Odd. Trouble with your ISP’s caching name servers?

Try specifically addressing the query to a known-good name server, e.g.

    host -a dns.google. 8.8.8.8