On 9 Jul 2012, at 22:37, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > 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/.
I never use '-t' with dig. drill *told* me I should use '-t' then completely failed to acknowledge I had done so. Marks-Macbook% drill -t www.google.com ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 14583 ;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;; www.google.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.google.com. 44089 IN CNAME www.l.google.com. www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.106 www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.147 www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.104 www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.105 www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.103 www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.99 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ;; Query time: 34 msec ;; SERVER: 178.250.72.130 ;; WHEN: Mon Jul 9 22:46:13 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 148 ;; WARNING: The answer packet was truncated; you might want to ;; query again with TCP (-t argument), or EDNS0 (-b for buffer size) _______________________________________________ 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"
