Network Utility - Lookup providing no details

It looks like network utility has changed in Mavericks. I use the lookup feature frequently to get DNS details on domain names, check MX records, NS records, etc. Once I relocated network utility and fixed my shortcut, I found that the lookup tab now provides simply the IP of a domain name, and no additional details. Is anyone else seeing this? Any ideas on a fix, or an alternate app that will provide this functionality?

To get any/all details you want - the keyword is “any”:
E.g.: dig yahoo.com any
I’ve tried the good old Network Utility 1.4.6 in Mavericks but to no avail,
see: https://discussions.apple.com/message/24702230#24702230

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and the rest of the text from the document follows.
I am thinking a host file or something was overwritten accidentally. Can anyone point me the right direction?

I'm not sure I understand your question, but if the hosts file has been modified, proceed as follows.
The easiest way to fix the hosts file is to restore it from a backup that predates the modification, or to copy the unmodified file from another Mac. If you can't do that, then do as below. Please read this whole message before doing anything.
Back up all data. This is a simple procedure, but if you don't follow the instructions exactly, you could be left with an unbootable system. In that case, you'll have to restore from a backup or reinstall OS X.
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open -e /etc/hosts
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
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# Host Database
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
127.0.0.1                              localhost
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fe80::1%lo0                    localhost
Below that, you'll see some other lines. There should be nothing above the first line "##". If you have any doubt about that, STOP and ask for guidance. Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom of the document. Scroll bars are hidden by default until you actually start scrolling, so you may not realize that you’re not seeing the whole document.
If the contents of the TextEdit window are as described, close it, then enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as before (by copy and paste):
sudo sed -i~ '11,$d' /etc/hosts
This time, you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Confirm. Quit Terminal.
If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator. Log in as one and start over.
That will fix the hosts file. There is now a copy of the old hosts file with the name "hosts~" in the same folder as "hosts". You can delete the copy if you wish. Don't delete the file named "hosts".

Network Utility lookup

Apologies if this is posted elsewhere: if so I cannot find it but traffic is so fast moving on these boards at the moment.
It looks to me that in Lion they have removed a useful little feature in the Network Utility - the drop down selection box where you could select different sorts of DNS information to fetch.
Is it intentional? And if so, why, for goodness' sake, remove something that was usefuland replace it with something less so?

Yes, it is strange. nslookup is also a useful command in this context, but again we are talking about a command line tool. The man file fort nslookup cautions that it may not be accurate in Mac OS, but it seems useful enough. The dig command has the same warning.
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       OS X. The results of name or address queries printed by dig may differ
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So, that's nice.
To answer etresoft's question- it is kind of what others have posted already. In 10.6 and earlier, you could specify, let's say, and MX record and run the query. This is useful information and it is not present in 10.7. It is sort of strange that they removed this. In 10.6 you actually see the dig command output in Network Utility.
The reason we want this feature, for example, might be to determine the priority for a set of mail servers in the MX records.
However, in 10.8 the network utility works fine. I see everything I want to see. I see MX records and all, as long as the actual DNS is configured correctly. Looking at records for a few of my servers, things look great. Looking at a client's server info (the reason why I got on this topic at all tonight) I don't see all I expect to see, and I believe this is why the guy has issues with his email service!

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I'm familiar with with DNS records, and I've often used the Lookup function of Network Utility to look up IP addresses, cnames, MX records, etc.
Just today I noticed that one of the options from the lookup menu is Mailbox Information.
What is that?
I even tried using it for a few well-known domains (like apple.com), but I don't understand the results.

Thanks, Austin. Littled used is right — virtually none of the domains I checked have anything listed. I tried apple.com, google.com, microsoft.com.
Years ago I learned about DNS from a book called DNS and Bind. The author, Cricket Liu, has his own website at http://cricketondns.com/ and even that lacks a Mailbox Information record.
If Cricket doesn't have one, then I'm not worried about it!
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I'm taking an Apple exam in the morning (7-7-06). The study guide I'm using has a question (or should I say an Answer) that doesn't seem right. Hopefully someone can help.
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Traceroute will actually show you the route all the way to the server if it is connecting to it.
That is true.
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The reason I need to change the file name is we want the breadcrumbing name to change and the breadcrumbing is linked to the file name.
I don't understand this reason. How would changing the file extension solve your breadcrumb issue? Why don't you explain the issue in more detail.

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It was suggested that I point our website domain name to our blog so that when people who are used to visiting the web site type in that address, the blog will come up instead. In order to do that, I need the DNS setting for our blog. It's usually a string of numbers like:
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;; global options: +cmd
ford.com. 900 IN A 136.1.240.248
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Do you host your own web site? Or directly control it's content?
You can make a web page automatically redirect the visitor to another site (google "html redirect"), which may be easier than updating DNS.

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Temro,
Welcome to the Forums! It shouldn't have removed it from your computer by you removing it from the dock. The default location for it is located in the /Applications/Utilities Folder. You can quickly get to this folder by, whilst in Finder by typing Command + Shift + U on your keyboard. Also if you wanted to do a quick search in Spotlight that would be good too, to do that either click on the Magnifier in the top right corner of you screen or hit Command + spacebar. Note that if you click on the finding of Network Utility it will open up in the Dock, from there you can ctrl + click it and select Keep in Dock.
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