Danny Mayer wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > >>>Don't use nslookup, use dig. nslookup is really bad as a diagnostic tool. >> >>I suggested nslookup, rather than dig, because nslookup is installed on >>both Solaris and Windoze and I think Linux as well. Dig is not >>installed on Solaris and, AFAIK not installed on Windoze either. >> > > > It should be installed on Solaris. I don't set up Solaris systems but > it's always been there. It's not on Windows but I've made sure that it's > in the BIND 9 binary kits for Windows. > man dig shows nothing which leads me to believe that it's not present.
There's a "dig" service on the web that I found with google, but that presuposes a working name service in order to find it. It's a hell of a name for the tool as well; "dig" is what I do with a shovel, why would anyone think of it as a tool for address lookups? > >>I've been using nslookup for years on many different operating systems >>and it has always met my modest needs. Why and how is dig better? > > > It's provides so little useful information that ISC tried to deprecated <snip> It provides the little information that I want; e.g. the IP address I asked for. ISTR that it can be persuaded to do more; e.g. things like returning MX records but that's something I need once in ten years! Learn to live with it! People want the tools they are familiar with. Unless you figure out how to retrain a few million people, nslookup will be around for many years yet. There's a lot of software that maybe should never have seen the light of day, including at least one well known O/S but once it has a user base it acquires a life of its own! _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
