Re: What happened to nslookup?

On 16.10.13 08:42, 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.
>
> People should really use host(1) for simple lookups. It provides the same
> information and does it in a manner that will not cause misdirection when
> things are broken.

Of course, host(1) is not a replacement for nslookup(1).

nslookup is interactive, while host is not. This makes for a big 
difference in many usage scenarios.

The decision to remove bind from base was poor, and not well 
communicated. Let's hope it will be reverted.

Daniel