>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:24:52 -0600 (CST)
>From: Joi Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>I'm pretty sure that all (UNIX) versions of nslookup uses gethostbyname();
>>...
>I'm not sure of this at all. On our internal machines, various breeds
>of linux and solaris, nslookup doesn't return an answer if there is no
>DNS entry for the name in question, EVEN IF that host is named in the
>/etc/hosts file.
Yup -- I was incorrect: nslookup *only* does DNS queries; it does not
pay attention to any other mechanisms for hostname resolution.
>Some versions of nslookup will accept an IP address, ie the Linux flavor
>will, but default Solaris flavors won't.
Right.
Sorry for any confusion,
david
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