nslookup not searching all domains in searchlist

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Lyle Coder

Hi,
If I have more than 5 entirs in my searchlist, then nslookup properly
appends the first 5 domains and then for the rest of the domains, just
concats the rest of the domains and makes one bad query. For example
if I have
one.com
two.com
three.com
four.com
five.com
six.com
seven.com
eight.com

Then when I do a nslookup foobar, nslookup will try one - fine and
then make one final query as "foobar.six.com,seven.com,eight.com"

Has anyone else seen this?
 
If I have more than 5 entirs in my searchlist, then nslookup properly
appends the first 5 domains and then for the rest of the domains, just
concats the rest of the domains and makes one bad query. For example
if I have
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Interest. NSLookup is benignly broken in various ways.

But it does the basic job of testing DNS servers for entries
or fetching them for other purposes.

Use another tool (there are many here who will tell you to
NEVER use NSLookup but it's nearly ubiquitous and it
does the job if you have nothing better).

The purpose of the suffix search list is to make the user's
life easier -- convience.

It's odd (and slow) to have more than a few search suffixes and
Admins should be able to specify precisely what they intend to
search.

In fact, I frequently terminate my searches with a period to purposely
force an EXACT match.
 
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