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