Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think it comes in dns-utils.
Jay Barbee wrote: > Hey all, > > I have kind of a strange situation on my home system. > > I have named running for my home network and all lookups and queries run just > fine. The odd part is, if I type 'nslookup <address>' it then gives me the > ">" > prompt. I will enter the address again and it errors out because the system > at > <address> is not running a DNS. Almost like it will not assume my linux box > is where I want to query to... > > If I simply type 'nslookup' and hit enter to get the ">" and then type in > <address> my Linux box spits the information I wanted originally. My > resolve.conf has "nameserver 127.0.0.1 <next DNS> <last DNS>". > > Why can I not simply type 'nslookup <unknownmachine>' and get back what I > am hunting for? > > --Jay Barbee > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]