September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
11h 1m
English
System administrators have a thankless job. They are asked certain questions, usually quite simple ones, over and over again. And sometimes, in a creative mood, they come up with a clever way to help their users. When the rest of us find out about their ingenuity, we can only sit back, smile admiringly, and wish we had thought of it ourselves. Here is one such case, where a system administrator found a way to communicate the solution to the sometimes perplexing puzzle of how to end an nslookup session:
C:\>nslookupDefault Server: envy.ugcs.caltech.edu Address: 131.215.134.135 >quitServer: envy.ugcs.caltech.edu Addresses: 131.215.134.135, 131.215.128.135 Name: ugcs.caltech.edu Addresses: 131.215.128.135, 131.215.134.135 Aliases: quit.ugcs.caltech.edu use.exit.to.leave.nslookup.-.-.-.ugcs.caltech.edu >exit
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