views lookup

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c51dfs$hi4$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 joe <bonggo at nospam.rocketmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   Is there a way that I can use dig or nslookup to pose
> as the source IP for a view entry I wish to check. As it
> stands now I have to telnet to a host that uses a
> specific view to validate it.
> 
> For example...say I'm on 10.1.1.1 (DNS server) and
> I have views setup for 172.16.2.2. Can I make dig
> or nslookup "think" that the query is actually originating
> from "172.16.2.2" for test purposes?

If you were to send a packet that appeared to come from 172.16.2.2, the 
response will be sent to that address, not to your machine.  Unless you 
have some way of capturing the response packet, this would not be useful.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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