[powerbook867]

I have looked around everywhere, and I'm sure there is a simple answer, I just can't seem to find it. How do I determine what my current DNS information is in os x? I know ifconfig -a shows all my IP info, I just don't see the DNS info anywhere...

It seems like a dumb question, but if anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated...

[Krusty]

How about Applications->Utilities->Network Utility ? Go to the 'Lookup' pane and put in your IP. Is this the info you want ??

[ginoledesma]

The GUI way:

1. Open System Preferences
2. Click Network
3. Double click the active configuration device (e.g. Ethernet)
4. It's in the same tab as the IP address and all that (Note: does not work with DHCP-assigned information)

The Command Line Way:
1. cat /etc/resolv.conf

And they say the command line is clunky

[tooki]

I don't know of any place to find the whole list of DNS servers that you've been assigned via DHCP, but I can tell you how to find the server that's being used at the moment: do a lookup using "dig".

In the Terminal, type
dig apple.com
(or whatever domain you want)

The last bit of the output will look something like this:
;; Query time: 202 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 29 13:03:56 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 188

The "SERVER" line is the DNS server address (in my case, it's my blue G3 acting as a router).

tooki

[Krusty]

Originally posted by tooki:
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In the Terminal, type
dig apple.com
(or whatever domain you want)

I just tried that. It gave the exact same info (actually a little less) than using Network Utility as I'd described above. Network Utility also gives a little checkbox labelled "Use 'dig' instead of 'nslookup' "