Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 13:03 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> >> I would really not like to fight this battle, I was hoping someone >> would answer >> the question I asked instead of assuming that I meant "what can I use >> instead of >> nslookup" which is not the problem. The issues are money, time, and >> office >> politics, and I ran "yum clean obstructionists" but it didn't work. > ---- > I think the question you asked was indeed answered... the nslookup > utility shipped with Fedora is part of the Bind utilities from ISC and > is deprecated and suggestions were to use dig. > > The truth is that you just didn't like the answer so you chose to ignore > it. > Asking where to find source for A and getting pointers to B is like asking where to get Italian food and being pointed to a Mexican restaurant. I am trying to avoid training time, because there's no budget and people who think AIX is the one true OS *will* ask for a shop order for training, just to be obnoxious. AIX users are no different than Windows or Solaris users, some confuse preference with religion. And the claim that changing scripts to use dig will take a bit of time appear justified, one programmer said dig was the "most obscurest crap" since he learned APL. I may be able to get the AIX source, possibilities abound. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- 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
