Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Sun Feb 27 00:30:33 UTC 2011
Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/27/2011 07:31 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> 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. :-(
>
> You're management *still* has it wrong. AIX and every Linux distro
> hasn't "dropped" anything. They all get their "bind" software from the
> same upstream source. That upstream source has depreciated nslookup in
> favor of dig.
>
>> I'm wondering how long it would take to write nslookup in perl. No, I'm not joking.
>>
> That sounds like a good plan. Write a tool in another language that
> performs the same function of an existing tool...and then support that
> tool into the future...all to avoid learning how to use the existing tool.
>
Again, outside political concerns, training time and script rewrites are likely
to be more expensive than writing the tool.
> Your time may be marginally spent better writing a wrapper around dig to
> make it appear as if it is nslookup.
>
My time is best spent implementing what people will pay for. ;-)
These people not only don't pay for good advice, they won't even take it for
free in many cases.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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