Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

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On 2/12/11 8:21 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Bill Davidsen<davidsen@xxxxxxx>  said:
>> 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.
> AFAIK nslookup has always come from BIND (in all the Unix-like OSes, not
> just Linux), and upstream BIND deprecated nslookup in favor of dig many
> years ago.  IIRC nslookup mucked around in the resolver library's
> internals (sometimes actually producing wrong results I believe), and
> when those internals changed, nobody wanted to update nslookup.
>
Thank you for the confirmation that nslookup is deprecated. I'm 
surprised that Linux still carries nslookup.  Possibly to work with 
those programs that need/desire it.

James McKenzie

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