What is the sense of telnet on 53 port?

[Kevin Darcy]

Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 11:25 AM -0700 7/26/01, Kankossa wrote:
> >  PS: I know that nslookup exist and my be more appropriated, but I want
> >  to know about the above questions.
>
>         IMO, nslookup is evil.  It should be avoided unless you have
> specific reason to know you want to use it.

Indeed. As a DNS troubleshooting tool, nslookup is only barely better than
telnetting to port 53 (Does that qualify as me finally saying something
positive about nslookup? :-)


- Kevin