The disgusting and useless nslookup

[Bob Vance]

Damn it :)

That's an excellent point.
Currently my little "gethostbyname" program just prints the results -- it
has no idea which nameserver was used.

Well, now I have a better appreciation of why 'nslookup' exists -- and I
guess I'll still use it.


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-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Christopher L. Barnard
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 9:13 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: The disgusting and useless nslookup


> "Christopher L. Barnard" wrote:
>
> > Speaking of nslookup, I have to admit that I still occasionally use it.
> > The reason I use it is for one purpose:  I want to know if a short
> > hostname is being resolved properly.
>
> ping hostname

but that doesn't accomplish what we need.  Ping resolves a hostname, but
does
not say *where* it had to go to resolve the name.

Christopher