From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 14:50:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zugzug.hq.newdream.net (zugzug.hq.newdream.net [216.246.35.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4157137B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:50:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1923 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2000 22:50:09 -0000 Received: from yoshi.hq.newdream.net (216.246.35.9) by zugzug.hq.newdream.net with SMTP; 11 Nov 2000 22:50:09 -0000 Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:50:09 -0800 (PST) From: Will Yardley To: Subject: Re: Re[2]: dig and nslookup In-Reply-To: <5170493854.20001111173129@yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG not to start (or continue) a flame war, but i think all 3 are useful in their own way. i do find myself using dig most of the time, especailly as i get better at using it, but i think that host and nslookup often provide a concise answer which is sometimes all that's needed. being able to use nslookup interactively is also nice. -will To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message