I'm no DNS expert, but in your example, baz.com probably has no record pointing to a server for 'baz.com'. There is an MX record that indicates the IP address of the default mail exchanger server, and that's probably what you'll have to query for if you want accurate results.

Using nslookup, you can query the MX record for baz.com with the following command: 

nslookup -type=MX baz.com

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This should return something like the following:

baz.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.baz.com
...
mail.baz.com    internet address = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

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In reply to Re: gethostbyname() and www prefix by converter
in thread gethostbyname() and www prefix by Anonymous Monk

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