"ls" doesn't work for nslookup

Wed Apr 4 20:22:24 UTC 2001

Why din't they want to include such a useful tool?

David Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph S D Yao [mailto:jsdy at cospo.osis.gov]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:44 PM
To: Matthew P. Marino
Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: "ls" doesn't work for nslookup

BIND 9 contains a massively castrated version of 'nslookup', largely
because they didn't want to include it at all.  Granted, classic
'nslookup' did some things differently from regular DNS.  However, it
is the commonly-used and documented diagnostic tool.

I keep hoping for time to create a "good" nslookup.  ;-)  Meanwhile,
don't expect BIND 9's 'nslookup' to behave other than as documented in
the package, and particularly not like classic 'nslookup'.

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