From: Bob Walker Date: 17:26 on 10 Nov 2003 Subject: nslookup on sun rah! the nslookup shipped with solaris 8 is most hateful bash-2.03$ nslookup macrospace.com dns2 which sites there for a while. snoop shows its doign this:- koi -> dns2.macrospace.com DNS C 163.65.85.80.in-addr.arpa. Internet PTR ? a few times untill it comes back *** Can't find server name for address 80.85.65.163: No response from server *** Default servers are not available what you mean the server name i gave you ! gah meh! the version with bind 9 admitedly works better. djb++ dnsip is so much nicer
From: collver1 Date: 17:56 on 10 Nov 2003 Subject: Re: nslookup on sun On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:26:30PM +0000, Bob Walker wrote: > rah! the nslookup shipped with solaris 8 is most hateful > bash-2.03$ nslookup macrospace.com dns2 > which sites there for a while. snoop shows its doign this:- > koi -> dns2.macrospace.com DNS C 163.65.85.80.in-addr.arpa. Internet PTR ? > > a few times > untill it comes back > *** Can't find server name for address 80.85.65.163: No response from > server > *** Default servers are not available > > what you mean the server name i gave you ! gah meh! > the version with bind 9 admitedly works better. > > djb++ > dnsip is so much nicer You told it to look up macrospace.com specifically using dns2.macrospace.com dns2.macrospace.com doesn't appear to be online. I would expect nslookup to behave as it did. What would you have it do differently? $ ping -c 1 dns2.macrospace.com PING dns2.macrospace.com (80.85.65.163): 56 data bytes ----dns2.macrospace.com PING Statistics---- 1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss Ben
From: Bob Walker Date: 19:24 on 10 Nov 2003 Subject: Re: nslookup on sun On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 collver1@xxxxxxx.xxx wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:26:30PM +0000, Bob Walker wrote: > > rah! the nslookup shipped with solaris 8 is most hateful > > bash-2.03$ nslookup macrospace.com dns2 > > which sites there for a while. snoop shows its doign this:- > > koi -> dns2.macrospace.com DNS C 163.65.85.80.in-addr.arpa. Internet PTR ? > > > > a few times > > untill it comes back > > *** Can't find server name for address 80.85.65.163: No response from > > server > > *** Default servers are not available > > > > what you mean the server name i gave you ! gah meh! > > the version with bind 9 admitedly works better. > > > > djb++ > > dnsip is so much nicer > > You told it to look up macrospace.com specifically using dns2.macrospace.com > > dns2.macrospace.com doesn't appear to be online. yes it is. > > I would expect nslookup to behave as it did. What would you have it do > differently? > give me an answer like nslookup in BIND 9 does and dig and djb's dns tools as well. > > > $ ping -c 1 dns2.macrospace.com > PING dns2.macrospace.com (80.85.65.163): 56 data bytes > > ----dns2.macrospace.com PING Statistics---- > 1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss > you see you are a bad person on the internet, my firewall doesnt let bad people on the internet ping the servers its protecting. > Ben >
From: collver1 Date: 20:01 on 10 Nov 2003 Subject: Re: nslookup on sun On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:24:14PM +0000, Bob Walker wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 collver1@xxxxxxx.xxx wrote: > > dns2.macrospace.com doesn't appear to be online. > > yes it is. > > you see you are a bad person on the internet, my firewall doesnt let > bad people on the internet ping the servers its protecting. That makes sense. I made a poor assumption. Ben
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 18:37 on 10 Nov 2003 Subject: Re: nslookup on sun > rah! the nslookup shipped with solaris 8 is most hateful What do you mean by "shipped with solaris 8"? AFAIK the bodge where it demands a server know its own name has been there forever.
From: Bob Walker Date: 19:19 on 10 Nov 2003 Subject: Re: nslookup on sun On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Peter da Silva wrote: > > rah! the nslookup shipped with solaris 8 is most hateful > > What do you mean by "shipped with solaris 8"? this is hate, it was what i was using. > > AFAIK the bodge where it demands a server know its own name has been there > forever. doesnt make it any less hateful > >
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 19:36 on 10 Nov 2003 Subject: Re: nslookup on sun > > AFAIK the bodge where it demands a server know its own name has been there > > forever. > doesnt make it any less hateful No, it means you don't have to restrict your hate to Solaris 8. Isn't that nice?
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