Where can I find a functional nslookup?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Feb 12 22:16:15 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 16:19 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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.
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hey, it's open source so feel free to dig in and fix the commands that
you feel are broken.

Craig


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