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List:       bind9-users
Subject:    Re: bind 9.1.0 on redhat 6.1
From:       Brian Wellington <Brian.Wellington () nominum ! com>
Date:       2001-02-28 23:24:30
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Kevin Darcy wrote:

> > There's a bug in nslookup that causes it to ignore ^C when it's reading
> > input or using the system resolver to look up the server name.  It'll be
> > fixed in 9.2, but the fix was complicated enough that it will not be in
> > 9.1.1.
>
> Why fix it at all? I thought nslookup was deprecated. I understand that you
> guys still keep it around because lots of folks have automated scripts that
> rely on it, but automated scripts aren't going to be issuing ^C's (or, if
> they do, shame on their authors!)

It also affects dig and host when using the system resolver, for example
"dig @server".

Brian

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