On 02/13/2011 05:14 AM, James McKenzie wrote: > On 2/12/11 8:21 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >> Once upon a time, Bill Davidsen<davidsen@xxxxxxx> said: >>> I don't know where the AIX version came from, I'll look to BSD for a solution. >>> Having used real nslookup on AIX for a decade or so, I'd rather have it just for >>> me, even if it didn't skip a training/perceptual problem. >> AFAIK nslookup has always come from BIND (in all the Unix-like OSes, not >> just Linux), and upstream BIND deprecated nslookup in favor of dig many >> years ago. IIRC nslookup mucked around in the resolver library's >> internals (sometimes actually producing wrong results I believe), and >> when those internals changed, nobody wanted to update nslookup. >> > Thank you for the confirmation that nslookup is deprecated. I'm > surprised that Linux still carries nslookup. Possibly to work with > those programs that need/desire it. > > James McKenzie > Just to confirm that nslookup comme from bind upstream: $ rpm -qf `which nslookup` bind-utils-9.7.2-5.P3.fc14.x86_64 -- Athmane Madjoudj -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
