> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 14:03:56 -0400 > From: "Lightner, Jeff" <jlight...@water.com> > Sender: bind-users-bounces+oberman=es....@lists.isc.org > > Of course some versions of nslookup arent' "standard" even for nslookup. > The one on HP-UX actually interrogates local /etc/hosts file if > nsswitch.conf says to use files first. I got so used to doing that for > years that when I tried to use nslookup on Linux back in 2005 I was > miffed because it was "broken" and only looked up from name servers. > (Someone even had the gall to point out that "ns"lookup was "name > server" lookup). :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org > [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org] On Behalf > Of Ben McGinnes > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 1:52 PM > To: Kevin Darcy > Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: Re: Unable to query the nameserver > > On 7/10/10 4:42 AM, Kevin Darcy wrote: > > > > ISC has tried to kill it, but the beast is resilient and won't die. > > Maybe we should call it a wombat then ... > > > Invocations of nslookup are embedded in thousands of legacy scripts > and > > some folks are unable or unwilling to change them. > > Nothing quite like coding/sysadmin laziness is there. Still, I probably > can't talk on that front.
Invocations of nslookup are embedded in thousands of BROKEN legacy scripts. nslookup is broken. It gives answers that are, from any sane point of view, wrong (though right from some other points of view). Most of the users of those legacy script are completely unaware of this until it bites them and they either kludge around the case they hit or fix the scripts to use host (or, very rarely, dig). Could we maybe replace nslookup(1) with a script which does a host(1) and and re-formats the output to look like nslookup(1) output. I don;t know that this would be easy, but it LOOKS like it would be easy. Yes, I am sure that some script somewhere depends on some "wrong" response from nslookup, but I can't see keeping nslookup(1) alive as is for that amazingly unlikely case. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
