"ls" doesn't work for nslookup

[Bryan Hodgson]

Only because I didn't see it noted elsewhere in this thread, it might be noted ..

dig @wherever a.zone.name -t axfr

yields pretty much the same info.

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