The disgusting and useless nslookup

[Simon Waters]

Bob Vance wrote:
> 
> I didn't say that I used it to troubleshoot DNS problems -- only
> resolver issues, in which case it is perfect and 'dig' is useless.

Urm, whatever else you say about nslookup, it is not a
PERFECT test of a system's resolver, the results of nslookup
can and frequently do defer from the results of
gethostbyname(). The assumption that nslookup will perform a
name resolution even vaguely similar to that done by the
resolver is not born out by my experience, although the
differences vary with vendor, and name service(s).

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