On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 16:12 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: > > > You keep actiing like Fedora (or Linux in general) is intentionally > > breaking the ancient program, but the truth is that AIX is running an > > ancient resolver library. The rest of the world moved on a long time > > ago; I recently turned off my last Tru64 Unix server, but I think DEC > > switched to the newer resolver and nslookup/dig in Tru64 5.1, and that > > was released in 2000 IIRC. > > > I'm acting like I asked a perfectly clear question about where to find source > and got a bunch of answers from people who don't understand the reason for the > question and assume it's something it's not. There are good reasons to want to > keep nslookup, all financial or political. Retraining costs money, rewriting > scripts costs money, at least where I live there a recession on, and installing > a working version is important to the people with the money. > > > Has AIX never deprecated a command before? > > > I have no idea, not to hear the AIX fanboys tell it. > > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot > Bill, Nslookup is part of the bind-utils package, I don't know if IBM has ported this guy to the AIX toolbox but you could have a look there. -- 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
