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Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !



On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:27:56PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Tue 01 May 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> 
> > nslookup is broken, please let it die its long-deserved death.
> 
> What's broken about it, apart from the brokenness that's in the current
> version about the verbose warnings and missing features (eg. ls) ?
> AFAIK it does exactly what it was designed to do. This is like saying
> "ed is broken, use emacs", while ed performs its task perfectly.
>
See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/tinydns.html#nslookup f.e.

Gerrit.
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