Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

Larry Vaden vaden at texoma.net
Sun Feb 27 00:18:14 UTC 2011


On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>>> I may be able to get the AIX source, possibilities abound.
>>>
>>
>> Have I got *NEWS* for you!!!!
>>
>> I have a friend up in Korea with access to AIX machines.  Their AIX
>> server is running 6.11
>>
>> It has exactly the same nslookup as provided on the various Linux
>> vendors I mentioned.
>>
>> The feature of "ls" is not implemented.
>>
> After some checking, it appears that AIX has dropped support for nslookup
> between AIX 5 and 6, the management solution was to "look harder" for the fully
> functional source. :-(
>
> I'm wondering how long it would take to write nslookup in perl. No, I'm not joking.

It was in

BSD/OS home.texoma.net 4.0.1 BSDI BSD/OS 4.0.1 Kernel #5: Thu Dec 30
20:38:22 CST 1999     root at mail.texoma.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL
i386

so check online for the source or with Paul Vixie or someone else at ISC.ORG.

regards/vaden at texoma.net


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