-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 4, 2009, at 19:21 , seph wrote: > Cat Okita <[email protected]> writes: >>> They require that I use *nslookup*, and paste examples. host isn't >>> good >>> enough here. Let's hear it for lazy programming. >> >> What's lazy programming here? They're asking you to use a commonly >> available tool with a standard output that's well known to their tech >> support people, rather than trying to program around whatever >> somebody >> might care to hand them. Controlling your data format is a perfectly >> legitimate concept... > > Well, that should depend on whether you believe nslookup is a bad tool > or not.
You might want to recall that until fairly recently ISC was telling people to stop using nslookup because it was going away, and I think some linux distributions had even stopped packaging it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkoAnvAACgkQIn7hlCsL25UuGgCfemjxO+mVjQ1lqUimu7nvsBP3 4OIAn3HTVjmsMkOqTMrMksOHVNEua1Ki =W9bi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
