BIND 9.3.0rc4 is now available.

[Tom Diehl]

On Sat, 5 Sep 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:

> Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > > ...  use dig instead.  but we have to keep shipping [nslookup].
> > 
> > There are undoubtedly many scripts out there that use it, too.  It
> > wouldn't be nice to break all of them just because there are better tools
> > available (e.g. awk hasn't been deprecated just because things like Perl
> > and Python make it redundant).
> 
> nslookup isn't redundant.  it's Evil.

Is there a document somewhere that gives specifics of why nslookup is evil?
I have been told this many times by various people but I have never actually
seen an explaination of the issues. FWIW I use dig and I am not sure I even
remember how to use nslookup anymore but I am courious.

Tom