Change Query Type on nslookup

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Thu Apr 7 08:00:44 UTC 2011


> > On 04/07/11 06:42, mee thun wrote:
> > > I am new member in this mailing list. I need help to change the query
> > > type in the nslookup command. The default nslookup using A, but I use
> > > ipv6 so the query type must use= AAAA. I don't know how to change the
> > > default nslookup from A to AAAA permanently?

you'd have to patch the source.

> In message <4D9D502D.7080108 at data.pl>, Torinthiel writes:
> > first, this is a bind list, and nslookup is not a bind tool. Consider
> > using dig, which is much better in this case.

On 07.04.11 16:36, Mark Andrews wrote:
> nslookup is a BIND tool,  we just tried hard to deprecate it.

nslookup is often not a bind tool, and that's one of reasons you have to
deprecate it ;)


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