On 02/13/2011 05:14 AM, James McKenzie wrote:
On 2/12/11 8:21 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Bill Davidsen<davidsen(a)tmr.com> said:
>> I don't know where the AIX version came from, I'll look to BSD for a
solution.
>> Having used real nslookup on AIX for a decade or so, I'd rather have it just
for
>> me, even if it didn't skip a training/perceptual problem.
> AFAIK nslookup has always come from BIND (in all the Unix-like OSes, not
> just Linux), and upstream BIND deprecated nslookup in favor of dig many
> years ago. IIRC nslookup mucked around in the resolver library's
> internals (sometimes actually producing wrong results I believe), and
> when those internals changed, nobody wanted to update nslookup.
>
Thank you for the confirmation that nslookup is deprecated. I'm
surprised that Linux still carries nslookup. Possibly to work with
those programs that need/desire it.
James McKenzie
Just to confirm that nslookup comme from bind upstream:
$ rpm -qf `which nslookup`
bind-utils-9.7.2-5.P3.fc14.x86_64
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