Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup > > > home.netscape.com' but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and > > > at the '>' prompt type your query. Annoying, isn'

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-04 Thread Jay Barbee
> On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup > > home.netscape.com' but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and > > at the '>' prompt type your query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this > > way as long as I can re

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-04 Thread W Paul Mills
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup > home.netscape.com' > but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and at the '>' prompt type > your > query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this way as long as I can remember b

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-04 Thread Jay Barbee
> > > If I simply type 'nslookup' and hit enter to get the ">" and then type > > > in my Linux box spits the information I wanted originally. > > > My resolve.conf has "nameserver 127.0.0.1 ". > > > > I have a running DNS, but when I tried to point the nameserver to > > 127.0.0.1, it also gave

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-04 Thread Mark F. Burgo
Seams to work fine on RH5.0 mark On 03-Jun-98 Paul Wouters wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > >> > Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into >> > interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think >> > it comes in dns-utils. >>

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-04 Thread Oommen Thomas
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote: smayer> That's funny. I don't have a problem issuing nslookup home.netscape.com smayer> on my latest hamm machine. smayer> smayer> On the other hand, on an up to date bo machine, I get the same problem smayer> you list (the droppi

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-04 Thread Oommen Thomas
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: .. sysjyb> If I simply type 'nslookup' and hit enter to get the ">" and then type in sysjyb> my Linux box spits the information I wanted originally. My sysjyb> resolve.conf has "nameserver 127.0.0.1 ". sysjyb> sysjyb> Why can I not simply type 'nslooku

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JBJ" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JBJ> Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup JBJ> home.netscape.com' JBJ> but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and at the '>' JBJ> prompt type your JBJ> query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this way

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Steve Mayer
That's funny. I don't have a problem issuing nslookup home.netscape.com on my latest hamm machine. On the other hand, on an up to date bo machine, I get the same problem you list (the dropping to the nslookup prompt). Upon further investigation, nslookup is a symlink to nslookup.sh w

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Sure I mean broken because the man page says you can do 'nslookup home.netscape.com' but in fact you can't. You have to run 'nslookup' and at the '>' prompt type your query. Annoying, isn't it? (It's been this way as long as I can remember but no, I haven't logged a bug report.) Jay Barbee wrot

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > > Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into > > interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think > > it comes in dns-utils. > > Hummm, I will try dig, no problem... but could you explain what you mean

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Jay Barbee
> Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into > interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think > it comes in dns-utils. Hummm, I will try dig, no problem... but could you explain what you mean by "broken". Is it some problem with they way I

Re: nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yeah, the nslookup (or its manpage) is broken. You always have to go into interactive mode. Yuck. Anyway you should try dig, it's fancier. I think it comes in dns-utils. Jay Barbee wrote: > Hey all, > > I have kind of a strange situation on my home system. > > I have named running for my home ne

nslookup prompt...

1998-06-03 Thread Jay Barbee
Hey all, I have kind of a strange situation on my home system. I have named running for my home network and all lookups and queries run just fine. The odd part is, if I type 'nslookup ' it then gives me the ">" prompt. I will enter the address again and it errors out because the system at i