Changing output of bind

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

You're confusing what part of the DNS system actually creates the output 
you see on screen.

Named simply returns results, dig formats the output.
Compare it to a database - you query the database, but it is not the 
database that formats your results, it's whichever prorgam runs the query.

That's the same as bind - for example, you can query a Bind DNS server 
using nslookup on Windows - the data is the same but the output format 
is completely different.

You will need to be modifying dig, or writing your own DNS client.
Even if it is only for internal use, if you break the output of bind, 
other applications that depend on it will break.

Andy.

RZ wrote:
> Thx for your reply.
>
> The task is to add a line to the normal output of named. I thought that
> cannot be as hard...
> And i won't violate any standards as it is for internal use only. But
> what is the format of the message dig receives?!?! Could you explain a
> little bit more please?
>
> And how would it be possible to change dig's output?
>
> Thx for any help,
>
> RZ
>
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>> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:58:55PM +0100,
>> Roland Zoder <rz at razfazz.at> wrote
>> a message of 36 lines which said:
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>>> For internal reasons I need to change the output of named.
>>>       
>> You certainly cannot: named produces replies in standard DNS wire
>> format (RFC 1035) and you cannot change it or standard DNS clients
>> (such as dig or any resolver) will not be able to use it.
>>
>> You can change dig's output format if this is what you want.
>>
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