From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 16 14:29:16 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A90A1A50 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:29:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-qa0-x231.google.com (mail-qa0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A4682311 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:29:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id i13so690813qae.1 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:29:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=i581Wze8wVOrP6zlqfts41SDJQzp2iG/fogwdJbbfhE=; b=t/mDGZ0LnpsJKRJ30LpyeiSW+MjQS4BPS03YlGd0sTZreUSvNPKYAwng1XYK+kqgmb xMx23i0HtB13jRIIrRnu4lqFdzp6dSF8t0sqtbPCA39gkU+T1PPKslCfJAbbChw5YWBI e/esrin1ZAicJHWrUZqsZMiJLP/ieZBy/VO38= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=i581Wze8wVOrP6zlqfts41SDJQzp2iG/fogwdJbbfhE=; b=UpJRwq84wqX/FlLSOFEva8bKpJr1ze5mMX6bPh/WNlr0VfYZVwmV7M0zCLGQaWHbaZ GPV2/+Yi3tG+7bItLy5FV0lmqKGdZ3R7x43C4d2bW1sixBRQl2gWaVqknRTVYEGsPE1b rMBJIiiW3VhXTe2BR/Nc8Dj5pAG/25ukH3kVDsKGyUCX1wMNNuGSGMbPO2dLHT1nW8gJ zwEHTCkTdPpulTKU5hNtS8yNizN1fUkmSTNk3/EGEgEWowU0U6LDkhTecDPvFyaef9Ch jtLLsfQZcCGv7t03pgiRMPTPJhxKtG/5Bw5lQPN2XBcEwScvPTPRp3HRWZvcycsLKh8z ipOw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkEbNu/JtJWtpoWcVHREaJzmkh0a/Bjy7Du5hOR/iR1soLW9wetc3AXtDx+kxDNzAZffGeo X-Received: by 10.49.98.1 with SMTP id ee1mr4229154qeb.28.1381933755604; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:29:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.96.63.101 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:28:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Eitan Adler Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:28:45 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: nslookup gave misleading results? To: Kevin Oberman , freebsd-current Current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:29:16 -0000 On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > nslookup(1) was deprecated about a decade ago because it often provides > misleading results when used for DNS troubleshooting. It generally works > fine for simply turning a name to an address or vice-versa. Can you give a bit more detail on this? In what ways did it give misleading results? -- Eitan Adler