From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 12:11:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F84216A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C854E43D48 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:10:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.strauser.com (pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3FJAtkX033470; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:10:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: Jerry McAllister References: <200404151835.i3FIZm119261@clunix.cl.msu.edu> From: Kirk Strauser Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:10:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200404151835.i3FIZm119261@clunix.cl.msu.edu> (Jerry McAllister's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:35:47 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: <87d669qcp4.fsf@strauser.com> Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040415, clamav-milter version 0.70g cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nslookup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:11:00 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2004-04-15T18:35:47Z, Jerry McAllister write= s: > I haven't heard that there is any specific evil involved, just that > somewhere in the high court of those who pass judgement on such things, it > has been decided to phase out nslookup in favor of new utilities. Nope. nslookup is inherently flawed is that its results don't necessarily reflect the results that the rest of your system may be getting. For more information, Google of "nslookup is bad". For example: http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/nslookup-daft-error-mess= age.html =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAft4/5sRg+Y0CpvERAqd/AJ9rbJIelDkj5pPQDf0dWw9+bAyshQCeJdiA 0dMjIim79rN0cRLI6RFszxQ= =oOMd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--