While it is indeed good to use and trust basic tools, it is very poor manners to badmouth things without any evidence of a problem.
There was no bad mouthing, and no reference in my post to anything about you. My recommendation was about not trusting complex (remote) GUI tools, when simple (local) tools could be used for simple, precise work.
I'm still not sure why you recommend not trusting "complex (remote) GUI tools". "Complex (remote) GUI tools" (what most people just call "web tools") have one significant advantage over "simple" (local) tools -- they avoid local configuration problems. I would estimate that the #1 problem with using nslookup/dig/etc is that the person using the tool runs it on a computer set up to use a local DNS server, which is an authoritative DNS server for the domain that they are looking up. In this case, inaccurate results often occur.
However, for the more knowledgeable, nslookup/dig can provide slightly faster results.
Nslookup is *NOT* broken.
... thereby declaring yourself to be NON expert in DNS. nslookup is broken, has been for years. This is widely known, documented, is ancient history. It was broken before MS included it in NT4. The nslookup delivered with BIND was fixed a long time ago. MS's is still broken. ...
Interesting. I've never come across this problem with nslookup.
because it doesn't display the information that dig displays
wrong. nslookup gives erroneous results.
I've used nslookup quite often, and never seen it give erroneous results.
But you've still managed to avoid explaining why those "complex (remote) GUI tools" (www.dnsstuff.com) should not be trusted.
-Scott
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