nslookup for W98?

[Kevin Darcy]

Hans Vlems wrote:

> If you're familiar with nslookup then there's no reason to learn another
> tool, provided
> nslookup is available.
>

  I disagree. Even if you are intimately familiar with the packet format of
DNS, use the "debug" option of nslookup, etc., dig still has better output
format control, batch-lookup capability, etc., features which nslookup simply
lacks. dig's output format is also more like master-file format, so it's
easier to use dig output to create or augment master files.

Going into the future, dig has or will have the ability to TSIG-sign queries,
verify TSIG signatures on responses, set EDNS0 buffer sizes/options and other
advanced features. Presumably (hopefully) these features will not be
back-ported to the deprecated nslookup.

dig is the future. nslookup is, thank goodness, the past. Let's bury it.


- Kevin