Mark Blackman <m...@exonetric.com> writes: > my DNS resolution is broken, so my ports can't download any tarballs. > In this case, I reach for dig to see which part of the DNS resolution > chain is failing me. > > At the bare minimum, 'dig' should be an alias for 'drill', which I have > to say isn't working brilliantly for me on OS X. It suggests I use '-t' > and then keeps suggesting I use '-t' even when I do use it. > > drill feels a bit rough around the edges to me.
This reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) American grade school teacher who complained that the metric system was so inexact; for instance, a meter is _approximately_ a yard, a kilometer is _approximately_ two thirds of a kilometer, etc. By which I mean, of course, that you are blaming drill not for its own shortcomings, but for those of the wrapper you use to _approximate_ dig with drill. The -t option doesn't mean the same for drill as for dig. A proper dig wrapper for drill would have to translate one to the other. However, you should never need the -t option when using dig; I suspect that it exists only for people who are so used to host that they want to use the same command line except for s/host/dig/. Instead of 'dig -t soa des.no', you should use 'dig des.no soa'. The syntax is dig [@server] name [type] [class] I'm not sure why it supports a class argument, since as far as I know, the only class still in use is IN. In the most common case, dig and drill are nearly identical; the command line is exactly the same (except for s/dig/drill/), and the output nearly so - drill doesn't print a question section. If that's a problem for you, it's easily fixed. % dig @ns.des.no des.no soa ; <<>> DiG 9.6.-ESV-R5-P1 <<>> @ns.des.no des.no soa ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47226 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;des.no. IN SOA ;; ANSWER SECTION: des.no. 3600 IN SOA ns.des.no. hostmaster.des.no. 2012042401 3600 900 3600000 3600 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: des.no. 3600 IN NS ns.des.no. des.no. 3600 IN NS ns.hyp.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns.des.no. 3600 IN A 194.63.250.121 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 194.63.250.121#53(194.63.250.121) ;; WHEN: Mon Jul 9 23:22:05 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 128 % drill @ns.des.no des.no soa ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 61642 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;; des.no. IN SOA ;; ANSWER SECTION: des.no. 3600 IN SOA ns.des.no. hostmaster.des.no. 2012042401 3600 900 3600000 3600 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: des.no. 3600 IN NS ns.des.no. des.no. 3600 IN NS ns.hyp.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns.des.no. 3600 IN A 194.63.250.121 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 194.63.250.121 ;; WHEN: Mon Jul 9 23:22:23 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 128 DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
