The disgusting and useless nslookup

[Chip Old]

On Sun, 27 May 2001, Brad Knowles wrote:

> 	Indeed, that is precisely the situation where nslookup is the
> most useless, precisely because it avoids using the standard resolver
> routines, and doesn't go through /etc/nsswitch.conf, etc....
>
> 	If people want to argue this point, they really need to get their
> facts straight as to just exactly what nslookup does and how it does
> it.

That's true of the nslookup distributed with BIND.  But the original
poster was talking about a vendor-supplied version of nslookup that DOES
go through nsswitch.

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