On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 16:19 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: > > The nslookup shipped with Fedora is a toy, with most of the important > > parts returning "not implemented" status. Can someone point me to a > > source for the real program, such as I used on other systems like AIX? > > The lack of functionality is becoming a real time-waster! > > > While I appreciate people taking time to provide pointers to other tools, > that > really wasn't the question... I don't want to retrain a bunch of people in a > mixed AIX/Linux environment, nor give them the impression that Linux tools > are > inferior (although in this case they are). > > I don't know where the AIX version came from, I'll look to BSD for a > solution. > Having used real nslookup on AIX for a decade or so, I'd rather have it just > for > me, even if it didn't skip a training/perceptual problem. > > These folks use "ls" and "hinfo" for many things, their internal nameservers > provide it, I suspect their scripts expect it to work, and see no reason for > the > Linux version to be a capon. Violates Plauger's Law of Least Astonishment. ---- hey, it's open source so feel free to dig in and fix the commands that you feel are broken.
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