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Interactive mode

Activity 6: In this activity, we are going to repeat the previous activity but we are going to carry it out in interactive mode. Let's get started:

Open a Command Prompt.
Enter the nslookup command and press the Enter key.
Note that Command Prompt has turned to a >. This indicates that you are now in interactive mode. Any commands you enter here are only used by nslookup.
Let's view the help options. Enter the help command and press the Enter key. You will see a lot more options than were displayed in non-interactive mode:

Figure 13.36: Command output

We will configure nslookup to search for MX records by entering the ...

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