Miles,

nslookup has been deprecated for years and shouldn't be used.  I'd 
recommend looking at using the replacement called 'dig' for queries.  
See if that solves your problems.

Cheers,
Mark

Miles O'Neal wrote:
> Since forever, the Linux nslookup command hasn't supported
> "help" or "ls", at least.  Has this changed in EL5?  Can
> anyone receommend a better version of nslookup for linux?
>
> Thanks,
> Miles
>
>   


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