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Date:      Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:28:45 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>,  freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   nslookup gave misleading results?
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgmfF0%2B_FZ7zbzCNXJEVqRkpGdUnLpEjfm4sC6oaVFLJ2g@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
> nslookup(1) was deprecated about a decade ago because it often provides
> misleading results when used for DNS troubleshooting. It generally works
> fine for simply turning a name to an address or vice-versa.

Can you give a bit more detail on this?  In what ways did it give
misleading results?


-- 
Eitan Adler



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