On 25 Aug 2003 15:40:35 -0700
Rick Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:22, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> 
> > Ironically, the first one that comes to mind is nslookup:
> > 
> > nslookup [hostname]
> 
> Does that surprise you?  It is neither surprising nor ironic.
> nslookup is part of ISC's BIND and is written specifically to
> query DNS servers, not follow system resolver protocols through
> a chain of services.  First line in the Description part of 
> man page reads:
> 
>     Nslookup is a program to query Internet domain name servers.
> 
> DNS lookups is all it is designed to do, so should not expect
> it to behave a like a standard client app and use system resolver.
> 
> - rick 
> 
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