Re: nslookup prompt...
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, 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.)
> >
> > Works on my mostly bo machine ( not up to date ).
>
>
> This could be a problem with the latest DEB package that fixes the security
> hole in BIND? Perhaps a bug?
Really old copies of the dnsutils package for Debian included a version of
nslookup that emulated the real one by calling host. The latest versions
of bind and of dnsutils contain a proper nslookup command, and have for
some time (I think Debian 1.3.x has the proper nslookup)
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