The disgusting and useless nslookup

[Bob Vance]

Ooops.  Yeah, actually you're right.  'nslookup''s logic generally tries
to emulate resolver logic, but my experience has been that the vendor's
version at least uses "nsswitch" if the local resolver libraries do.

However,

>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,

is way overstating the issue.  It is certainly more than vaguely
similar.

In any case, 'dig' remains useless.

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Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 6:02 PM
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Subject: Re: The disgusting and useless nslookup



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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