using in.named and named.boot on BIND V8
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Fri May 25 17:45:27 UTC 2001
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 07:42:29PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 1:00 PM -0400 5/25/01, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
>
> > The 'nslookup' program is a great little program for translating names
> > to IP addresses and back ONCE DNS IS WORKING PROPERLY.
>
> I cannot disagree more strongly with this statement. The
> "nslookup" program does not use the standard resolver routines, and
> violates virtually every principle I know of with regards to using
> the resolver and the DNS protocol the same way that "regular"
> programs do.
>
> This is what makes it such an incredibly piss-poor tool for a
> human being to use to try to figure out what might be wrong with
> their nameserver.
Which is why I said, once it is working properly. And, yes, it needs
massive re-write.
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Joe Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
OSIS Center Computer Support EMT-B
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