Accepted, conclusion still stands: select your tool with care for the job, don't always use just one. Think what you want to know and how each tool works.
Let us put this to rest, I think we agree largely. On 13/10/11 0:09, Kevin Darcy wrote: > On 10/12/2011 5:46 PM, Sten Carlsen wrote: >> >> >> On 12/10/11 22:33, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Sten Carlsen <st...@s-carlsen.dk> wrote: >>>>> Use dig. >>>>> >>>>> Always use dig. >>>> I don't quite agree, for debugging bind, use dig - for debugging lookup >>>> issues on some machine, host will behave more like any normal program, >>>> using >>>> resolv.conf and what else and can point to some issues dig will not >>>> discover. E.g. normal SW using something else than DNS, because of some >>>> setup. Dig will never catch this. >>> If you're concern about what address programs gets when they resolve >>> host names, then getent is a better choice as it also respects >>> nsswitch.conf and hosts file. >> I just tried to make the point that dig is NOT always the perfect >> tool, it depends what you want to know. Using dig tells you about >> DNS, host and getent and even nslookup tells you more about the >> behaviour of your system. > As far as I know, only HP-UX has hacked nslookup to look at > /etc/hosts. And I don't think it even looks at the "switch" file or > other naming sources (e.g. Yellow Plague). HP-UX's nslookup > "enhancement" is a one-off, I believe. > > On most platforms, the only way that nslookup is "closer" to the OS > name-resolution mechanism than dig is that nslookup will do > suffix-searching, whereas dig will not. But even then, I think > nslookup uses its own version of the resolver library to do that, so > if one is trying to troubleshoot a problem with the OS'es > suffix-searching behavior using nslookup, one might be comparing > apples to grapefruit (or, since we're talking about nslookup here, > perhaps I should say uglyfruit). > > > > - Kevin > > > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe > from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Best regards Sten Carlsen No improvements come from shouting: "MALE BOVINE MANURE!!!"
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