whois and basic DNS

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:08 AM +0000 7/3/01, Sam Adams wrote:

>                         i got carried away by its explanation of
>  the use of '*', '!' to mean name-only, handle-only.  Aren't
>  those special chars to most Unix shells?! Maybe escaping them would
>  work, um...

	That's correct, they are special characters to many shells, and 
would need to be quoted -- either using an immediately preceding 
backslash, or by putting the entire query in single quotes (not 
double quotes, since those get expanded first).

>  Good idea. I did read the 3rd ed briefly. Was under the impression
>  that 4th edition added more DNS security than anything else.

	The DNSSEC stuff is new, as is the stuff about BIND 9.  I'm not 
sure about the rest.  I can tell you that sooner or later (probably 
sooner), you will want/need the BIDN 9 stuff to help you install and 
administer BIND 9 at your site.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

/*        efdtt.c  Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net>          */
/*       Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody         */
/*     Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers        */
/*                                                                      */
/*     Usage is:  cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob        */
/*   where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key    */

dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'