Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

[Matthew Byng-Maddick]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Steve Keay wrote:
> nslookup does a rather dumb thing:  it tries to lookup the reverse DNS
> for the nameserver it's about to use.  Apart from being a waste of
> time, failure to find the name means it will refuse to query that
> nameserver.

Why doesn't your nameserver *have* reverse DNS.

> nslookup is a throwback to 1970's UNIX bollocks, as is the whole of
> the BIND distribution.  If you have to use anything from BIND, host
> and dig are at least somewhat consistent....

host(1)'s error messages are often misleading - it can give the message
"try again" to nxdomain responses, for example...

MBM

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