Search Again: Re: dig documentation From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, December 12, 2003 Time: 11:19:52 am nslookup has problems. Number one is that it refuses to talk to a DNS server that lacks a PTR record. I'm frankly not sure what other problems exist, aside from the fact that the ISC version is not the only version (Microsoft makes their own, differently-broken version), making it unpredictable to use across different systems. If you want a query tool that gives simple results, similar to nslookup, there's always the host command. For example, to query the Men & Mice DNS main server iteratively (non-recursively) for the PTR record for its own address: $ host -r 217.151.171.7 dns1.menandmice.com Using domain server: Name: dns1.menandmice.com Address: 217.151.171.7#53 Aliases: 7.171.151.217.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer dns1.menandmice.com. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy At 9:54 AM -0900 12/12/03, mattb wrote: >Which leads me to the question, why is nslookup being looked at as a >bad thing? > >It gives the response people want without the extra stuff. > >>What nslookup people "hate" about dig is not the dig commands but >>the dig responses, which are nothing but the DNS packet contents >>shown in its 5 sections.

Messages In This Thread: dig documentation by Kenneth Kirksey on Dec 5, 2003 at 6:22:06 am Re: dig documentation by Len Conrad on Dec 12, 2003 at 6:22:44 am Re: dig documentation by mattb on Dec 12, 2003 at 10:57:50 am Re: dig documentation by Men & Mice Support on Dec 12, 2003 at 11:19:52 am Re: dig documentation by Len Conrad on Dec 12, 2003 at 11:24:10 am Re: dig documentation by Kenneth Kirksey on Dec 12, 2003 at 12:11:50 pm Re: dig documentation by Len Conrad on Dec 12, 2003 at 1:24:25 pm