On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Am working on the release-critical bugs in bind. It appears that > lintian flags the 'mx' and 'ns' commands as possible namespace > pollution. These, along with 'aaaa', 'soa', and 'zone' are symlinks to > 'host' that do quickie lookups for those types of records, without > having to specify an option like '-t soa'. > > I'm inclined to agree with lintian that these are pretty worthless. However, > since this is obviously not a release-critical issue, I thought I'd ask for > opinions before I just do it...
I frequently use "ns" and "mx" to check problems with domains (I work for a large ISP/Web hosting provider). While they -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
