"ls" doesn't work for nslookup
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Wed Apr 4 20:47:34 UTC 2001
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:22:24PM -0700, David Frank wrote:
> Why din't they want to include such a useful tool?
Because it uses its own mechanism for accessing the name server instead
of using the resolver libraries. [But this is sort of necessary to get
some of the information that would otherwise not be available to it.]
And because it doesn't give as much detailed information that is useful
when debugging BIND or DNS as, say, 'dig'. And sometimes its responses
are, say, idiosyncratic [not what a sane observer would have expected].
But normal people would not want to try to interpret the output of
'dig'. As simple as it is, there are those who have trouble
interpreting the output of 'nslookup'.
I feel there is a use for both. But that's just me. No, wait ...
there was someone in Virginia USA who agreed with me. ;-)
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