[Planetlab-users] how to re-enable nslookup on planetlab nodes?

[Faiyaz Ahmed]

Hi,

nslookup is part of the bind-utils package.  Try

yum install bind-utils

and host/nslookup should be installed in their usual location.

Hope that helps.


Faiyaz Ahmed

zxw20 at eecs.cwru.edu wrote:
> It seems there was a massive nslookup disappearance from my slice 
> recently, I don't know if anyone else had seen this similar situation. I 
> have site_admin access to our own node and I can use nslookup with my 
> site_admin account but not my slice account on that machine. Although 
> the binary file of nslookup is in /usr/bin when I am using site_admin 
> account, it will not show up when I use my slice account. As I 
> remembered, most nodes in my slice does support nslookup several month 
> ago, but now only a few still support it. I can't use dig or host as 
> well on these nodes. Can anyone teach me how to re-enable nslookup on 
> planetlab nodes for my slice? Thanks very much.
> 
> Cheers, Zhihua
> 
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