Eitan Adler <lists_at_eitanadler.com> writes: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com> 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? A couple of different reasons cited by ISC for why they deprecated it a long time ago: nslookup bundled an internal resolver library, and so it wouldn't always give the same results as other utilities. Also, it always ignored some of the host configuration. -- Lowell GilbertReceived on Wed Oct 16 2013 - 13:18:11 UTC
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