Kevin Darcy wrote: > John Horne wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 10:47 +0200, Adam Tkac wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:06:56AM +0100, John Horne wrote: >>> >>>> How can I see the TTL value using nslookup? >>>> >>> I'm not sure how force nslookup to show TTL but the `dig` utility is >>> far more better tool for getting such information: >>> >>> >> I agree, it's not for me though :-) >> >> I have to teach some Windows people about the DNS, and wanted to show >> them that they could use 'nslookup' on either the Linux box provided, or >> their own Windows PC's. In this instance the TTL is important. So I was >> hoping that the MS and BIND nslookup commands would display something >> pretty much similar to each other so as not to confuse the people too >> much. >> >> As far as I can tell no BIND 9 nslookup command shows the TTL. I am >> currently looking at an 8.2.3 version to see if I can patch the 9.5.1 >> one to display TTL's again. It may, however, be better to introduce them >> to dig rather than having to maintain the nslookup command. >> > Removing features from nslookup gets us that much closer to KILLING and > BURYING it. Forever. > > If I had a nickel for every time someone mis-read the output of nslookup > and mistook the nameserver's name, for the name of the server they're > actually looking up, well, let's just say I probably wouldn't be posting > to bind-users from my work account... > > (Fortunately nslookup's whole "won't do a lookup because I can't > reverse-resolve my resolver" bogosity isn't really an issue at Chrysler, > since we maintain proper reverse mappings, but that's another popular > "nslookup sucks, don't use it"-category posting to this mailing list)
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