On Wed, 16 Oct 2013, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
On 16.10.13 08:42, Kevin Oberman 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.
People should really use host(1) for simple lookups. It provides the
same information and does it in a manner that will not cause
misdirection when things are broken.
Of course, host(1) is not a replacement for nslookup(1).
nslookup is interactive, while host is not. This makes for a big
difference in many usage scenarios.
The version of nslookup on FreeBSD systems I've used had no command line
history or editing (even ntpdc has this now), gave results that were not
always in line with other tools (ldns, drill, host etc.), and to do a host
lookup inside the nslookup shell you had to type ... "host" :-)
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