Fw: nslookup - help.

[Bob Vance]

I missed the original post on this thread.
What, exactly, was the failing lookup?

Wasn't there just a discussion about BIND's 'nslookup' vs. vendor's
'nslookup'?
Could it be the same thing?
E.g., we know that HP has decided to make its 'nslookup' emulate pretty
much
exactly what a client program (using the HP libs) would get via
resolution;
viz., searching the "/etc/resolv.conf" domain list and supporting
"/etc/nsswitch.conf", as well.

   (Personally, I'm glad for that.
    Under HP-UX, I use *their* 'nslookup' so that I'm pretty sure
    what 'ping' or 'telnet' will see, while I also use 'dig' for
    other lookups.
   )

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-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Ralf Hildebrandt
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:54 AM
To: Gerald Waugh
Cc: bind-users at isc.org; Ashley_E_Andrews at rush.edu
Subject: Re: Fw: nslookup - help.



On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:12:05AM -0500, Gerald Waugh wrote:

> > Thanks for the information about dig.  In looking at the problem in
more detail
> > yesterday (and after a weekend without thinking about it) -- it
seems nslookup
> > is able to resolve when it is using Sun's nslookup?  It is in
/usr/sbin.  The
> > resolving problem occurs when another nslookup is used in
/opt/local/bin.
> > So, it was nice to at least be able to understand what was going on.
Now just need
> > a solution, we are going to try a few things.............. Any
thoughts on why
> > the nslookup in /opt/local/bin is giving trouble - I believe that is
one
> > installed with bind 9.

What happens if you use "+debug" when looking up a name with the
"faulty"
nslookup? Do "dig" and "host" work? Why do you insist in "nslookup"?