using in.named and named.boot on BIND V8

[Joseph S D Yao]

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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