On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup > > > home.netscape.com' but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and > > > at the '>' prompt type your query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this > > > way as long as I can remember but no, I haven't logged a bug report.) > > > > Works on my mostly bo machine ( not up to date ). > > > This could be a problem with the latest DEB package that fixes the security > hole in BIND? Perhaps a bug?
Really old copies of the dnsutils package for Debian included a version of nslookup that emulated the real one by calling host. The latest versions of bind and of dnsutils contain a proper nslookup command, and have for some time (I think Debian 1.3.x has the proper nslookup) -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
