On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote: smayer> That's funny. I don't have a problem issuing nslookup home.netscape.com smayer> on my latest hamm machine. smayer> smayer> On the other hand, on an up to date bo machine, I get the same problem smayer> you list (the dropping to the nslookup prompt). Upon further smayer> investigation, nslookup is a symlink to nslookup.sh which seems to be a smayer> wrapper to the host program and not a true binary nslookup. smayer> smayer> Sorry if I haven't really been following the thread, but could this be smayer> part of the problem? smayer> smayer> Steve Mayer smayer> [EMAIL PROTECTED] smayer> smayer> smayer> smayer> Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: smayer> > smayer> > Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup home.netscape.com' smayer> > but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and at the '>' prompt type your smayer> > query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this way as long as I can remember but no, I smayer> > haven't logged a bug report.) smayer> > smayer> > Jay Barbee wrote: smayer> > smayer> > > > Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into smayer> > > > interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think smayer> > > > it comes in dns-utils. smayer> > > smayer> > > Hummm, I will try dig, no problem... but could you explain what you mean by smayer> > > "broken". Is it some problem with they way I have created the DNS tables? Do smayer> > > you suggest in uninstall DNSUTILS and reinstall the package? Seems to be smayer> > > an environment problem, not a blip in the nslookup binary itself? Just a thought. smayer> > smayer> > -- smayer> > Jens B. Jorgensen smayer> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] smayer> > smayer> > --
It IS working on my machine with Slack linux 2.0.27 Neither is it a symlink Its a binary Has this been changed in newer versions? Or is it a non-Slackware issue? Oommen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
