On 02/12/2011 04:19 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: >> The nslookup shipped with Fedora is a toy, with most of the important >> parts returning "not implemented" status. Can someone point me to a >> source for the real program, such as I used on other systems like AIX? >> The lack of functionality is becoming a real time-waster! >> > While I appreciate people taking time to provide pointers to other tools, that > really wasn't the question... I don't want to retrain a bunch of people in a > mixed AIX/Linux environment, nor give them the impression that Linux tools are > inferior (although in this case they are). > > I don't know where the AIX version came from, I'll look to BSD for a solution. > Having used real nslookup on AIX for a decade or so, I'd rather have it just for > me, even if it didn't skip a training/perceptual problem. > > These folks use "ls" and "hinfo" for many things, their internal nameservers > provide it, I suspect their scripts expect it to work, and see no reason for the > Linux version to be a capon. Violates Plauger's Law of Least Astonishment. > > Thanks all. > nslookup came from isc.org I believe .. http://ftp.isc.org/www/bind/arm95/Bv9ARM.ch03.html Look down for nslookup ... I may have missed it - what functionality are you looking for that is not working ? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines