Where can I find a functional nslookup?

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 13:50:59 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 13:03 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>
>> I would really not like to fight this battle, I was hoping someone
>> would answer
>> the question I asked instead of assuming that I meant "what can I use
>> instead of
>> nslookup" which is not the problem. The issues are money, time, and
>> office
>> politics, and I ran "yum clean obstructionists" but it didn't work.
> ----
> I think the question you asked was indeed answered... the nslookup
> utility shipped with Fedora is part of the Bind utilities from ISC and
> is deprecated and suggestions were to use dig.
>
> The truth is that you just didn't like the answer so you chose to ignore
> it.

+1

Furthermore, since your AIX admins consider Linux a toy, they
shouldn't have any problem playing with dig. :)


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