Moving BIND binaries

Bill Manning bmanning at ISI.EDU
Thu Sep 9 02:51:53 UTC 1999


> Now, the script to start DNS was changed from /usr/sbin/in.named to
> /usr/local/sbin/named.  No problem.  Now what about nslookup?  I'm
> currently using the default in /bin/nslookup but would much prefer to use
> the newer one in /usr/local/bin.  Can I just copy the new binary over the
> old one?  And if so, should I copy the new named over the old in.named
> while I'm at it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ~Jeff

dig is a much nicer tool. (small bias here)

much better than nslookup across the board.

-- 
--bill


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