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Re: nslookup prompt...



Seams to work fine on RH5.0
mark

On 03-Jun-98 Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, 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.
> 
> Debian has always had this problem. I never checked into this (I only run 
> debian on my laptop netmonitoring station). nslookup isn't the "normal bind
> one". It doens't depen on how you create your data. It just doesn't seem to
> parse command lie parameters, or simple ignores them.
> 
> Paul
> 
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Date: 04-Jun-98
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