Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !
Gerrit Pape writes:
> 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.
...which says:
| What exactly is nslookup doing wrong? Three things:
|
| * Before doing what you tell it to do, nslookup tries a PTR query
| on the server's IP address, so that it can tell you the server's
| name, as if this information were more useful than the name or
| IP address that you gave nslookup in the first place.
| * When you specify a server on the command line, nslookup sends
| its silly PTR query to that server, unjustifiably assuming that
| the server is recursive or already has the answer. Correct
| behavior would be to ask the local cache.
| * If the silly PTR query fails, nslookup aborts, and never does
| what you told it to do.
That looks like a requirement to remove a few lines of code, rather
than to retire the whole program. So what else is wrong with it?
ttfn/rjk
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