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 >
I'll try to choose my words more carefully for you next time Rick ;o) Perhaps you'd like to help solve the issue that we're discussing? Cheers, Sean -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
