nslookup for W98?

[Will Yardley]

Michael Kjorling wrote:

> But of course, using dig _does_ take an understanding of how the DNS
> works. I'd say that is nslookup's biggest advantage - and one of its
> biggest disadvantages...

also a lot of people are used to using nslookup.  i'd say that any sort
of dns debugging requires at least some understanding of how the DNS
works (and a lot of the problems that people have with nslookup are
because they don't).  i'd say that 'host' would be a good tool to have
as well - i find this often to be a convenient tool for quick answers,
and a lot of the support techs where i work are able to learn it pretty
easily.  dig's output can look pretty confusing sometimes for someone
who doesn't understand the format.  host's query syntax is also a bit
easier to understand, at least at first.

still, it would be cool if someone made a standalone dnsutils package
for win32 with the current versions of host, dig and nslooup (with the
nag message of course).   if anyone has such a package, i'd be happy to
put it up somewhere or mirror it.  that way people have no excuse not to
use the correct tools when they write in....

w

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