Problem with NSLOOKUP

[bmanning at ISI.EDU]

> > Doh!  Don't tell this to the uninitiated!  Let 'em learn how to do it the
> > right way first!  :-)
> 
> The 'nslookup' program does some hand-holding for you.  What's wrong
> with that?  The 'dig' program requires that you first have a good
> feeling for DNS.  How do you get that in the first place?
> 
> Asking specifically for a PTR record seems relatively sophisticated to
> me.  Most people that I know think that the DNS machine is some kind of
> central network server that performs magic network juju.
> 
> --
> Joe Yao				jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
> COSPO/OSIS Computer Support					EMT-B
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actually, dig seems more intuitive than nslookup to me and has more 
flexability than host.  handholding is an awful lot like the F1-key
syndrome.  "I just press F1 and I get everything on my desktop..."

	decreasing Knob factors in applications:

	find  		
	perl            do majik network juju 
	-----------------------------------------
	bgp
	ndc
	dig		comprehensable by network primates
	hostname

--bill