nslookup sucks (was Re: [Fwd: newbie nameserver])
Thor Kottelin
thor at anta.net
Wed Jan 19 09:14:58 UTC 2000
BIND Users Mailing List wrote:
> From: Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com>
> In article <388428CF.70BBFC1C at anta.net>, Thor Kottelin <thor at anta.net> wrote:
> >My favorite DNS client is nslookup.
>
> Why?
Because I'm used to it, just as I'm used to Windows NT and to the climate
here in Finland. :-)
> The
> only feature it has is its ubiquity -- it's included with most versions of
> Unix and NT.
This is a nice feature, especially when you need to instruct someone to
troubleshoot their local DNS setup, but don't know what other tools they
might have installed.
Thor
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