Configure Network Services - MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2: Installation and Configuration Study Guide - page 108

Listing the Contents of a Domain To get a list of the contents of an entire domain, use the
ls command. To find all of the hosts in your domain, you'd type set type=a and then type
ls -t yourdomain . com .
Troubleshooting Zone Transfers You can simulate zone transfers by using the ls
command with the -d switch. This can help you determine whether the server you are
querying allows zone transfers to your computer. To do this, type ls -d domain__name .

Nslookup Responses and Error Messages
A successful nslookup response looks like this:

Server: Name_of_DNS_server
Address: IP_address_of_DNS_server
Response_data

Nslookup might also return an error message. Some common messages are listed in
Table 2 .6.

Table 2.6 Common nslookup error messages

Error message Meaning

DNS request timed out.
Timeout was x seconds.
*** Can't find server name for address
IP_Address: Timed out
* ** Default servers are not available
Default Server: Unknown
Address: IP_address_of_DNS_server

The resolver did not locate a PTR resource
record (containing the hostname) for the
server IP address you specified. Nslookup
can still query the DNS server, and the DNS
server can still answer queries.

*** Request to Server timed-out A request was not fulfilled in the allotted

time. This might happen, for example, if the
DNS service was not running on the DNS
server that is authoritative for the name.

*** Server can't find Name_or_IP_
address_queried_for : No response from
server

The server is not receiving requests on
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port 53.

*** Server can't find Name_or_IP_
address_queried_for: Non-existent
domain

The DNS server was unable to find the
name or IP address in the authoritative
domain. The authoritative domain might
be on the remote DNS server or on another
DNS server that this DNS server is unable
to reach.