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Windows Server 2012: Using NSLookup to test results

Windows Server 2012: Using NSLookup to test results

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Windows Server 2012: Using NSLookup to test results

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- [Voiceover] Before you can test your work on Windows Server 2012, you're going to need to change the DNS server that the server is set to look at. Okay, so I'm here in my network settings and I'm going to click on Ethernet, and I'm going to click on Properties, and then down here on Internet Protocol Version 4. I'm gonna click Properties again and this is where we have our static configuration for the IP address on this machine. Now, I'm just going to change the Preferred DNS server from .1 to .3, which is going to make it the same as its own IP address, very simple. Click Okay, click Close, Close again, and then all I need to do is close this, and then when you bring this up full-screen, we're going to come up here and look at the windows box over here under DNS, okay, and then if I right-click on that, I have the ability to Launch nslookup, which just basically launches the command window there and brings us into NsLookup directly. Now, that's one way to do this, but in case…

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