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

[James McKenzie]

On 2/26/11 5:30 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Again, outside political concerns, training time and script rewrites are likely
> to be more expensive than writing the tool.
>
It is best that you tell them that nslookup is not maintained, has MAJOR 
security concerns and sell them on dig.  If they don't buy, walk.  I'm 
serious, you will continue to encounter more and more problems with 
these folks.  They will have to bring in a consultant who WILL tell them 
the facts and put it in their face.  That is sad, but that is the way.  
Unless you are a stakeholder, they will continue to ignore you.
>> 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.
>
Another reason to book, the faster the better.  We don't even install 
nslookup anymore and we are a MAJOR customer of Oracle and RedHat 
(something in the number of thousands of systems installed.)  I talk to 
the manager of DNS services to see if their system has it installed, but 
I'm just about certain that they are dig only.

James McKenzie