AIX also does something similar. On 10/12/11 05:09 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> As far as I know, only HP-UX has hacked nslookup to look at /etc/hosts. > And I don't think it even looks at the "switch" file or other naming > sources (e.g. Yellow Plague). HP-UX's nslookup "enhancement" is a > one-off, I believe. > > On most platforms, the only way that nslookup is "closer" to the OS > name-resolution mechanism than dig is that nslookup will do > suffix-searching, whereas dig will not. But even then, I think nslookup > uses its own version of the resolver library to do that, so if one is > trying to troubleshoot a problem with the OS'es suffix-searching > behavior using nslookup, one might be comparing apples to grapefruit > (or, since we're talking about nslookup here, perhaps I should say > uglyfruit). > > > > - Kevin > > > _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
