On 2/12/11 8:21 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Bill Davidsen<david...@tmr.com> said: >> 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. > AFAIK nslookup has always come from BIND (in all the Unix-like OSes, not > just Linux), and upstream BIND deprecated nslookup in favor of dig many > years ago. IIRC nslookup mucked around in the resolver library's > internals (sometimes actually producing wrong results I believe), and > when those internals changed, nobody wanted to update nslookup. > Thank you for the confirmation that nslookup is deprecated. I'm surprised that Linux still carries nslookup. Possibly to work with those programs that need/desire it.
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