"ls" doesn't work for nslookup
Bryan Hodgson
bryan at verne.myxa.com
Fri Apr 6 15:22:44 UTC 2001
Only because I didn't see it noted elsewhere in this thread, it might be noted ..
dig @wherever a.zone.name -t axfr
yields pretty much the same info.
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> Why din't they want to include such a useful tool?
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> David Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph S D Yao [mailto:jsdy at cospo.osis.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:44 PM
> To: Matthew P. Marino
> Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Re: "ls" doesn't work for nslookup
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> BIND 9 contains a massively castrated version of 'nslookup', largely
> because they didn't want to include it at all. Granted, classic
> 'nslookup' did some things differently from regular DNS. However, it
> is the commonly-used and documented diagnostic tool.
>
> I keep hoping for time to create a "good" nslookup. ;-) Meanwhile,
> don't expect BIND 9's 'nslookup' to behave other than as documented in
> the package, and particularly not like classic 'nslookup'.
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