For ASCII, both dig and nslookup belong to the dnsutils package, which also offers nsupdate (which seems like some other useful dns utility :) and nothing else.
Ralph. Steve Litt wrote on 17/10/18 15:58: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 23:52:34 -0700 > Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote: > > Rick's first word of the following paragraph refers to the dig > program... > >> It's the most versatile and reliable tool around for testing DNS >> functionality -- which in turn is useful to be able to test separately >> from the separate task of actually making connections for services >> after resolving DNS names to find where to reach them. > > What's your opinion of nslookup as an alternative to dig? Not sure, but > I think you need to install bind to get dig, and not everyone wants to > install bind. > > Thanks, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business > http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
