nslookup

[Edward Buck]

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Dean Brooks wrote:

| The issue isn't that dig was poorly written or violates some official
| standard.  I was just making a point that a lot of people resist using
| dig because of its arcane and confusing options lists.

I agree that many people resist using dig but it's not because of its
options processing, which makes sense to me.  It's because of its overly
verbose default output.  Verbosity is a very useful unix convention that
allows various levels of detail.  The default for dig includes way too
much information (IMO).

A 'nslookup' on a hostname typically means "get me the A record for that
hostname."  A dig on a hostname typically means "get me the A, the NS,
the TTL, the flags and bunch of other detail on a domain name."

I use both nslookup and dig.  For simple queries, the output of nslookup
is just easier to read.  For troubleshooting, dig is definitely superior.

If dig had a non-verbose option, I would throw away nslookup completely.
~ As it is, I'm quite happy to keep using 'nslookup -sil'.

Cheers,
Ed
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