Unable to query the nameserver

[Kevin Darcy]

On 10/6/2010 11:44 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote:
> On 7/10/10 2:09 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>    
>> I can find nothing in the documentation that states such. If I missed
>> it, I'd appreciate someone pointing me at it.
>>      
> I have some vague memory of seeing messages to that effect when using it
> on a Solaris system in around 1999.  I stopped using it around then and
> switched to host and dig.
>
> I can't point you to specific documentation (I stopped caring when I
> started using dig), but I did find these:
>
> http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/nslookup.html
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/nslookup-flaws.html
>
> As far as I'm aware it only hung around because it was available on
> Windows NT/2K/etc., while host and dig were not.
>
>    
ISC has tried to kill it, but the beast is resilient and won't die. 
Invocations of nslookup are embedded in thousands of legacy scripts and 
some folks are unable or unwilling to change them.

                                                                         
                                                                         
                         - Kevin