On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:39:59 -0400 Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
  

That's true. In my setups, I either query the DNS as I described, or just throw in the towel and use the management tools available (there is a Java-based configuration utility for Novell DNS and DHCP, and there is the web-based iManager; either of which will list assigned hosts).
    

Are you doing this w/ os/2?  Last I knew many of the nifty little apps didn't work w/ OS/2.
It's been several years since I gave up on Netware and no longer run it here so I've lost touch.

  

Explains why I never had much luck when I played with dig.  ;-)

  
      

:-)  Certainly not for your local network. However, dig is the preferred way of querying outside sources (nslookup is considered deprecated, although M$ continues to use it).
    

The required syntax always gave me trouble, I didn't use it enough to get it down pat.

  

Maybe I better look at it again sometime.