Rogers static name

[Kevin Cozens]

On 12-05-29 10:31 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> host<rogers IP>
>
> nslookup has been deprecated for close to a decade now after all.
> Better get used to NOT using it.

IIRC, nslookup was being dropped in favour of dig. Does anyone know (or 
remember) what is wrong with nslookup or why dig was supposed to be better? 
If dig's output isn't that good compared to nslookup I would have thought 
there would have been more complaints about using dig to replace nslookup. 
Now it seems as if host may have been created to fix the issues of dig that 
was supposed to be better than nslookup.

It is interesting to compare the outputs of nslookup, dig, and host. Without 
any command line options, nslookup and host provide almost the same 
information but its better formatted from host and host adds the mail 
exchanger information. dig provides a bunch of information (eg. the TTL 
values) that the other two don't provide (by default) but its output is more 
cryptic if you are looking beyond a simple name IP mapping in its output.

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