On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, James Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:59 PM, William Pitcock > <neno...@systeminplace.net> wrote: > > For someone who is a CCNA, Mikrotik Certified Whatever, etc, etc, etc, > > you really should know how to use dig(1). > > Certifications usually only suggest certain skills or knowledge they > were designed to validate, and sometimes might fail even at that; > dig(1) or detailed DNS knowledge is not scoped within either of those > certs, as far as I know.. > Whilst that's almost certainly right, I had a lot of trouble finding a google search that _didn't_ return something relevant as it's first hit (such as ARIN's whois, or one of several guides on how to use dig/etc for reverse DNS). Of course, they don't teach google in any certification I've come across either, but... Scott