I was curious too, so to resurrect a 12 year old thread with 14 year old info: http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/20001005080818.O15286@impressive.net "Paul Vixie: nslookup's functionality will probably return in some form, since a lot of people seem to like it. The existing BIND8 implementation of nslookup is very closely bound to the internal API of BIND8, which does not exist in BIND9. Generally, "dig NAME RRTYPE" is all most people need to know, but if it's important to direct a query to a particular server then the syntax is "dig NAME RRTYPE @SERVERADDRESS". Lastly, if what you want is a zone transfer (which nslookup implemented in its "ls" command), the syntax is "dig NAME axfr @SERVERADDRESS", in other words, use an RRTYPE of "axfr". "David Conrad: The behavior of nslookup is suboptimal in many areas, giving weird or un-useful error messages, however it is difficult to simply fix nslookup as many people rely on the weird behavior (particularly in scripts). The functionality provided by nslookup will likely continue (given how many people have written scripts that require and are used to using nslookup), but we didn't have time to do the full revision we wanted, so we give a warning suggesting people use dig instead. " 2014 now - still using nslookup. :-)

In reply to Re^3: HELP - nslookup in perl by Anonymous Monk
in thread HELP - nslookup in perl by Anonymous Monk

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