Where can I find a functional nslookup?

[Bill Davidsen]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> The nslookup shipped with Fedora is a toy, with most of the important
> parts returning "not implemented" status. Can someone point me to a
> source for the real program, such as I used on other systems like AIX?
> The lack of functionality is becoming a real time-waster!
>
While I appreciate people taking time to provide pointers to other tools, that 
really wasn't the question... I don't want to retrain a bunch of people in a 
mixed AIX/Linux environment, nor give them the impression that Linux tools are 
inferior (although in this case they are).

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.

These folks use "ls" and "hinfo" for many things, their internal nameservers 
provide it, I suspect their scripts expect it to work, and see no reason for the 
Linux version to be a capon. Violates Plauger's Law of Least Astonishment.

Thanks all.

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