On 06/13/10 14:08, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
On Jun 13, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
On 06/13/10 13:00, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
Microsoft's nslookup is broken. What alternative applications that can
be installed and used in a Windows XP environment that will continue to
work in a Windows 7 environment after a decision is made to upgrade
Windows?
In the past I've installed nslookup and dig from the BIND package for
windows to solve this problem.
You wouldn't happen to know when Microsoft's implementation became
hopelessly broken would you?
Well given my anti-microsoft bias, my natural answer is "at conception"
but that's not particularly helpful for you, sorry. :)
Being, primarily, a Linux/Unix user; I tend not to use nslookup except
when logged into a Windows system. It has to be several years since I
last used nslookup until the last few days.
http://dougbarton.us/DNS/bind-users-FAQ.html#nslookup-evil
The problem with the erroneous functioning of Microsoft's nslookup.exe
is that it requires a corporate wide change. There are a number of
reasonably intelligent users that assume nslookup.exe is providing them
correct information. I would need to convince management that it needs
to be replaced with the ISC version or convince them to deploy DiG to
all systems. Deploying DiG might be the easier as it doesn't replace
something distributed by Microsoft. At the same time, the tool that
users are familiar with is broken. It needs to be replaced. This will be
a "hard sale" to management.
That's a different scale of problem than what you originally described.
:) Without knowing more about your internal political/support/etc.
structure it's hard to be sure what the "right" answer is. However if
the scope is not "replace/augment nslookup for a few support techs" but
rather "find a way to give a large number of, possibly non-technical
users the right answers" then I would suggest that perhaps setting up an
internal web page that explains the problem in the simplest possible
terms, and provides a CGI with access to a working version of nslookup
and/or dig so that they can get the answers they need might do the trick.
hth,
Doug
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