Where can I find a functional nslookup?

[Terry Polzin]

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 16:12 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> > You keep actiing like Fedora (or Linux in general) is intentionally
> > breaking the ancient program, but the truth is that AIX is running an
> > ancient resolver library.  The rest of the world moved on a long time
> > ago; I recently turned off my last Tru64 Unix server, but I think DEC
> > switched to the newer resolver and nslookup/dig in Tru64 5.1, and that
> > was released in 2000 IIRC.
> >
> I'm acting like I asked a perfectly clear question about where to find source 
> and got a bunch of answers from people who don't understand the reason for the 
> question and assume it's something it's not. There are good reasons to want to 
> keep nslookup, all financial or political. Retraining costs money, rewriting 
> scripts costs money, at least where I live there a recession on, and installing 
> a working version is important to the people with the money.
> 
> > Has AIX never deprecated a command before?
> >
> I have no idea, not to hear the AIX fanboys tell it.
> 
> -- 
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
>    "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
> the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
> 
Bill,

Nslookup is part of the bind-utils package, I don't know if IBM has
ported this guy to the AIX toolbox but you could have a look there.