On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, jose sanchez wrote:

> The query is from outside the LAN. I have a laptop
> with AOL and run the host, nslookup programs. I don't
> have a remote box that I can test it with.

The Google directory lists several online DNS testing sites:

    http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Protocols/DNS/Web_Tools/

This one lets you run queries against a specific server, for instance:

    http://www.analogx.com/contents/dnsdig.htm