On 08/20/2018 10:14 AM, Lee wrote:
On 8/19/18, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote:
nslookup applies the search list by default and doesn’t stop on a NODATA
response.
Some versions of nslookup have been modified by OS vendors to use /etc/hosts
for address lookups.
nslookup doesn’t display the entire response by default.
I learned something :) Thank you
Not that I know the implications of "doesn’t stop on a NODATA
response" but hopefully that can be remedied.
wrt the search list, that's why I got in the habit of always typing
the trailing dot. I've never seen that fail, but 'set nosearch' is
supposed to do the same thing.
'set debug' and 'set d2' displays lots, but I never checked to see if
it was the entire response or no
So... it seems like the bottom line is that dig is better but nslookup
ain't all that bad
Lee,
Messages like this, and the one you sent me privately, are the reason
that I usually don't even bother replying to messages on this list. I
don't say that to denigrate you. I say it in the hopes that someone,
maybe even you, will learn from your mistake.
Your "bottom line" completely misses basically everything that's been
said in this thread. No one has made any statement about nslookup being
"bad," or "worse" than any other tool. I have clearly stated the
contexts in which the two tools are more or less suited for a given
situation, and given reasons why. Others have expanded on those reasons.
If you still don't understand why, at least try to understand the when
and how. Go back and re-read the thread. Look up the terms that you
don't understand. You can even ask reasonable, specific questions to the
effect of, "I looked up term XYZ but didn't understand how the zig
interacts with the zag, can someone explain that to me?"
In other words, do SOMETHING to help yourself. Don't complain that no
one worked hard enough to make you understand something that you seem to
be working so hard to misunderstand.
Good luck,
Doug
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