Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

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On 02/13/2011 05:14 AM, James McKenzie wrote:
> 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
>

Just to confirm that nslookup comme from bind upstream:

$ rpm -qf `which nslookup`
bind-utils-9.7.2-5.P3.fc14.x86_64

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