"ls" doesn't work for nslookup

[Kevin Darcy]

Because it's misleading, and confusing, and just generally sucky, compared
to other DNS troubleshooting tools like "dig". The only reason nslookup
still exists at all is because some folks are too lazy to change scripts
which still rely on it. That's not a sufficient reason, IMO, to keep it
around.


- Kevin

David Frank wrote:

> 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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