Re: nslookup prompt...
Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup home.netscape.com'
but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and at the '>' prompt type your
query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this way as long as I can remember but no, I
haven't logged a bug report.)
Jay Barbee wrote:
> > Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into
> > interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think
> > it comes in dns-utils.
>
> Hummm, I will try dig, no problem... but could you explain what you mean by
> "broken". Is it some problem with they way I have created the DNS tables? Do
> you suggest in uninstall DNSUTILS and reinstall the package? Seems to be
> an environment problem, not a blip in the nslookup binary itself? Just a thought.
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