You can use nslookup included with your tcp/ip utilities such as ping,
tracert, etc. Most folks that do much dns work use "dig" (domain internet
groper) at
www.isc.org. You need to download the whole bind build for NT
and install it and make sure you don't install/start the bind server. You
could also just pull out the dig.exe and the dlls that are required. That
is a lot of work for most users, therefore I would recommend a tool I wrote
called NetDig at
www.mvptools.com. It is two exes (one console, one gui) so
you can just copy it to a machine and run (xcopy deploy.) You do, however,
need .Net Framework 1.1 installed on machine before you run it. Most folks
have installed this by now using the Windows Update service, but some may
not and will not until they use an app that actually requires it (an now
they do.) In any case, I would learn and use dig or netdig.
