Re: nslookup prompt...
That's funny. I don't have a problem issuing nslookup home.netscape.com
on my latest hamm machine.
On the other hand, on an up to date bo machine, I get the same problem
you list (the dropping to the nslookup prompt). Upon further
investigation, nslookup is a symlink to nslookup.sh which seems to be a
wrapper to the host program and not a true binary nslookup.
Sorry if I haven't really been following the thread, but could this be
part of the problem?
Steve Mayer
smayer@rtd.com
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>
> 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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