Search Again: Re: dig documentation From: Len Conrad Date: Friday, December 12, 2003 Time: 11:24:10 am >Which leads me to the question, why is nslookup being looked at as a bad >thing? >It gives the response people want it often gives false responses that mislead people > without the extra stuff. the original nslookup, the one picked up by MS as they "innovatively" cobbled together their tcp/ip stuff from elsewhere, did a PTR query on the IP of the DNS it was defaulting to, and if the PTR didn't exist, nslookup would say "host not found", misleading 10's of 1000s of people 100's of 1000's of times to conclude that their was a DNS problem, when the problem was with nslookup. nslookup delivered with BIND fixed this problem, but I'm pretty sure MS's nslookup still has this false reporting. The dig response is full of useful info that helps your analysis. Len

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