Unable to query the nameserver

[Lightner, Jeff]

Of course some versions of nslookup arent' "standard" even for nslookup.
The one on HP-UX actually interrogates local /etc/hosts file if
nsswitch.conf says to use files first.   I got so used to doing that for
years that when I tried to use nslookup on Linux back in 2005 I was
miffed because it was "broken" and only looked up from name servers.
(Someone even had the gall to point out that "ns"lookup was "name
server" lookup).  :-)

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[mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf
Of Ben McGinnes
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 1:52 PM
To: Kevin Darcy
Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: Re: Unable to query the nameserver

On 7/10/10 4:42 AM, Kevin Darcy wrote:
>    
> ISC has tried to kill it, but the beast is resilient and won't die.

Maybe we should call it a wombat then ...

> Invocations of nslookup are embedded in thousands of legacy scripts
and
> some folks are unable or unwilling to change them.

Nothing quite like coding/sysadmin laziness is there.  Still, I probably
can't talk on that front.


Regards,
Ben
 
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