Rogers static name

[Kevin Cozens]

On 12-06-01 12:04 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> nslookup was buggy in certain conditions, and is replaced by 'host'.
>
> If would for example do a reverse lookup on the specified server and
> if that failed, it would reply as if the thing you asked it to lookup
> didn't exist, even though all that didn't exist was a reverse name for
> the dns server.  That has eventually been fixed, but there are other
> issues apparently.

k, thanks. I had remember hearing about dig as replacement for nslookup but 
hadn't heard about host before. Too many binaries in a *nix system. :-)

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