Microsoft's nslookup Implementation Problems

[Merton Campbell Crockett]

On Jun 13, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 06/13/10 13:00, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
>> Microsoft's nslookup is broken.  What alternative applications that can
>> be installed and used in a Windows XP environment that will continue to
>> work in a Windows 7 environment after a decision is made to upgrade Windows?
> 
> In the past I've installed nslookup and dig from the BIND package for windows to solve this problem.


You wouldn't happen to know when Microsoft's implementation became hopelessly broken would you?

Being, primarily, a Linux/Unix user; I tend not to use nslookup except when logged into a Windows system.  It has to be several years since I last used nslookup until the last few days.

The problem with the erroneous functioning of Microsoft's nslookup.exe is that it requires a corporate wide change.  There are a number of reasonably intelligent users that assume nslookup.exe is providing them correct information.  I would need to convince management that it needs to be replaced with the ISC version or convince them to deploy DiG to all systems.  Deploying DiG might be the easier as it doesn't replace something distributed by Microsoft.  At the same time, the tool that users are familiar with is broken.  It needs to be replaced.  This will be a "hard sale" to management.


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Merton Campbell Crockett
m.c.crockett at roadrunner.com




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