1. Should a word about the forwarding servers be included in Introduction?
2. Is telnet(1) really needed in this section?
--CezaryMorga


> I don't see why telnet is there either. --ceri

>> I had proposed this privately before the Document was published in 2005: "note that ping or telnet 
>> can be used to show hostname lookups as the systems sees." So no need to telnet to domain port, just a quick way to do a gethostname(3) lookup.
>>
>> On at least NetBSD, telnet uses getaddrinfo(3) and ping uses gethostbyname(3) which both basically use the name-service switch dispatcher (nsswitch).
>> The book probably doesn't need details like this,
>> but knowing that other tools are available is good. --reed

>>> Nevertheless I'd suggest removing ping(1) and telnet(1) from this section: it's getting quite big without two additional commands that are not meant
>>> to query for domain name  IP address translation. --CezaryMorga

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We have a few DNS sections, so we need to make sure they don't duplicate topics but point to section as applicable.
Such as [[Determine_who_is_responsible_for_a_DNS_zone]] and [[Understand_various_"domain"_contexts]].
Also we may also move these topics next to each other in the book. --reed