nslookup sucks (was Re: [Fwd: newbie nameserver])

[Barry Margolin]

In article <38858092.9AC8AD99 at anta.net>, Thor Kottelin  <thor at anta.net> wrote:
>> 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.

True.  Although I never use nslookup myself, when I'm performing technical
support and telling our customers to do DNS lookups, I refer to nslookup
since it's the only tool I assume they have.

However, here in the newsgroup I try to encourage people to use dig.  It's
infinitely better when you're doing detailed troubleshooting.

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