Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/27/2011 07:31 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> After some checking, it appears that AIX has dropped support for nslookup >> between AIX 5 and 6, the management solution was to "look harder" for the fully >> functional source. :-( > > You're management *still* has it wrong. AIX and every Linux distro > hasn't "dropped" anything. They all get their "bind" software from the > same upstream source. That upstream source has depreciated nslookup in > favor of dig. > >> I'm wondering how long it would take to write nslookup in perl. No, I'm not joking. >> > That sounds like a good plan. Write a tool in another language that > performs the same function of an existing tool...and then support that > tool into the future...all to avoid learning how to use the existing tool. > Again, outside political concerns, training time and script rewrites are likely to be more expensive than writing the tool. > Your time may be marginally spent better writing a wrapper around dig to > make it appear as if it is nslookup. > My time is best spent implementing what people will pay for. ;-) These people not only don't pay for good advice, they won't even take it for free in many cases. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- 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
