"ls" doesn't work for nslookup

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Wed Apr 4 22:40:42 UTC 2001


At 1:22 PM -0700 4/4/01, David Frank wrote:

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

	Because they have a much better tool named "dig" which is 
included, and doesn't use really bad code, and isn't hated and 
reviled by virtually all experienced domain administrators around the 
world.

	I strongly suspect that if the functionality of "nslookup" is 
ever carried forward in the future, it will be done based on "dig", 
and may in fact simply be a shell-script wrapper.


	"dig" is your friend.  I encourage you to start learning how to use it.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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/*       Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody         */
/*     Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers        */
/*                                                                      */
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