The Nslookup command is used on Windows systems at the command line. Kali Linux systems use dig instead of nslookup.
Nslookup is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS) to obtain domain name or IP address mapping, or other DNS records.
SYNTAX
nslookup [-opt …]
nslookup [-opt …] -server
nslookup [-opt …] host
nslookup [-opt …] host server
Switch | Purpose |
---|---|
[-opt ...] | Interactive mode using default server. |
[-opt ...] -server | Interactive mode using 'server'. |
[-opt ...] host | Just look up 'host' using default server. |
[-opt ...] host server | Just look up 'host' using 'server'. |
Check out the Using Nslookup Lab for some examples of nslookup is used on Windows systems.