Kevin Oberman wrote:
> More importantly, dig(1) uses the standard resolver routines while
> nslookup has its own.
Actually you have that backwards. :) dig generates a raw dns request
packet and sends it out on the wire itself, more or less acting as if
it were an actual name server. Therefore if
Ok ok guys :-)
I'm satisfied.
> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 00:04:35 -0700
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> Subject: Re: stable 7.0 and nslookup help command
>
> On Wed, Oct 08, 200
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:36:29AM +0200, xer xernet wrote:
>
> Yes, thanx to all of you and your answers..
> I'm just a dig user now, but..
> The question now is:
> - if i want to implement /usr/share/misc/nslookup.help in nslookup (even if
> nslookup is evil) how can i do that?
> I need to know
ymore, but
i'm still curios HOW was implemented on older STABLE-5.5
Thanx again :-)
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> Subject: Re: stable 7.0 and nslookup help command
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:44:22 -0700
>
More importantly, dig(1) uses the standard resolver routines while
nslookup has its own. This has, in some cases, resulted in different
results from nslookup than for what the stub resolver returns which can
really lead one down the primrose path when troubleshooting.
I consider nslookup to be evi
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
Not to dissuade you from what you're trying to accomplish, but "nslookup"
has been deprecated (this has been stated a few times by the BIND folks),
and "host" is probably on its way out as well (though I remember somewhere,
sometime, nslookup used to
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:30:23PM +0200, xer xernet wrote:
> Hello to anyone.
>
> I'm a FreeBSD user, i'm still a new bee but i still keep to learning.
> Anyway, here is my question:
>
> I use a FreeBSD STABLE-7 not installed by me, in this installation nslookup
> works very good and the "?" or
