Where can I find a functional nslookup?

[James Mckenzie]

Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>Sent: Feb 15, 2011 4:21 AM
>To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
>Subject: Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?
>
>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.
>
No, the real truth is if Bill wants nslookup fixed, he is going to have to do it himself.  It is deprecated and that means the upstream folks no longer maintain it in favor of dig.  We don't install it on our systems for various reasons, but being deprecated is one of them.  dig is a better, faster utility.

Bill is going to have to overcome the 'office politics' with a case of SECURITITIS and let the folks know that unmaintained software is dangerous and introduces unknown hazards.  It is at least a possible security violation to do so for some areas (PCI/FDA will NOT allow this.)

James McKenzie