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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