The disgusting and useless nslookup (was Re: using in.named and named.boot on BIND V8)

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Knowles <brad.knowles at skynet.be> writes:

    Brad> 	I have to assume that it is for reasons like this that
    Brad> "nslookup" is completely gone from more recent versions of
    Brad> BIND.  Good riddance!

It is still there alas. IIRC the BIND9 developers did discuss dropping
nslookup for BIND9 but were obliged to provide it, possibly for
contractual reasons. There are a lot of legacy scripts in use that
depend on this dismal tool unfortunately. So nslookup lives on. At
least the BIND9 version of nslookup prints a nice little message
telling you to use a decent lookup tool instead:

    % nslookup 
    Note:  nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
    Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead.  Run nslookup with
    the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.

nslookup is like something from a Dracula horror film. It's not alive,
but it's not dead either. But it keeps coming back to haunt you. And
everyone's bored with it and wishes it went away forever. :-)