Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:09:38 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: James Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com> Cc: Peter Chiu <pccb@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dig and nslookup Message-ID: <3A0F7792.6F06FC01@FreeBSD.org> References: <000b01c04c96$2eeb93d0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net>
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James Wilde wrote:
> > PS, there really is no good answer. You shouldn't use nslookup anyway,
> > just use dig.
>
> Is this one of those religious wars of the vi/emacs sh/bsh/csh/tsh type?
> Nslookup, like, say, vi and sh, can be found on all machines, even on NT
> machines. And for the most part it does the job.
Well, that depends on what job you're talking about. If ALL you want to
do is map hosts to IP's, or vice versa; it does ok at that, but you're
better off using 'host' because it's output is easier to read and 'host'
is much less likely to get confused. If your job is serious DNS problem
solving, you have to learn how to use dig, for the simple reason that it
gives you all of the data from the DNS packet, and therefore is able to
show you what you really need to know to debug problems.
Doug
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