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Lähettäjä: Ralph Ronnquist
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Aihe: Re: [DNG] dig vs nslookup: was Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs
For ASCII, both dig and nslookup belong to the dnsutils package, which
also offers nsupdate (which seems like some other useful dns utility :)
and nothing else.

Ralph.

Steve Litt wrote on 17/10/18 15:58:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 23:52:34 -0700
> Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:
>
> Rick's first word of the following paragraph refers to the dig
> program...
>
>> It's the most versatile and reliable tool around for testing DNS
>> functionality -- which in turn is useful to be able to test separately
>> from the separate task of actually making connections for services
>> after resolving DNS names to find where to reach them.
>
> What's your opinion of nslookup as an alternative to dig? Not sure, but
> I think you need to install bind to get dig, and not everyone wants to
> install bind.
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
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