On 06/27/2012 03:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/27/2012 02:07 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:

On 06/27/2012 03:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/27/2012 01:44 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
Thanks for the help. I don't care what I put in the brackets it still
comes back to what you see in this post.

Well, then, stop putting it in brackets.

[joe@khorlia Desktop]$ nslookup khorlia.zeff.us
Server:        207.217.77.82
Address:    207.217.77.82#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    khorlia.zeff.us
Address: 71.109.144.196

[joe@khorlia Desktop]$
I did it your way and still got the same results. It still tells me it
can't find it.

What hostname are you trying to find?  Maybe there's something wrong with the name, or the way you're specifying it.  Is it fully qualified, as mine is?
192.168.1.84     israel.risingstar.local
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