Re: SRV record not working

2018-08-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/18/2018 04:53 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: In article , Grant Taylor wrote: On 08/18/2018 07:25 AM, Bob McDonald wrote: I don't think anyone hates nslookup (well maybe a few do ) I suppose the immense dislike stems from the fact that it's the default utility under Windows. Folks who use

Re: SRV record not working

2018-08-18 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Grant Taylor wrote: > On 08/18/2018 07:25 AM, Bob McDonald wrote: > > I don't think anyone hates nslookup (well maybe a few do ) I > > suppose the immense dislike stems from the fact that it's the default > > utility under Windows. Folks who use dig as their default realize that

Re: Local Slave copy of root zone

2018-08-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 2018-08-15 10:43, Tony Finch wrote: Doug Barton wrote: Slaving the root and ARPA zones is a small benefit to performance for a busy resolver, [...] This technique is particularly useful for folks in bad/expensive network conditions. While the current anycast networks of root servers is

Re: SRV record not working

2018-08-18 Thread Paul Kosinski
Extra complexity -- "man dig" yields 289 lines while "man nslookup" yields only 160 lines. Also, dig is not simply an extension of nslookup (which I long ago abbreviated to nsl), but is significantly different, so it using it involves the human analog of a cache miss. On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:12:0

Re: SRV record not working

2018-08-18 Thread Paul Kosinski
When I started using Linux almost 20 years ago, I think there was only nslookup, and no dig. So by habit, I tend to use it unless the extra power of dig outweighs its extra complexity. I don't remember what I used on Windows back when I was regularly using both. On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 11:42:20 -0600

Re: SRV record not working

2018-08-18 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 08/18/2018 07:25 AM, Bob McDonald wrote: I don't think anyone hates nslookup (well maybe a few do ) I suppose the immense dislike stems from the fact that it's the default utility under Windows. Folks who use dig as their default realize that when used properly, dig provides much more functi

re: SRV record not working

2018-08-18 Thread Bob McDonald
> I know that most of you hate nslookup but I have been using it since the > 90's and it's my go-to utility. I get the same responses whether I use > Dig or nslookup. If nslookup doesn't return what I am looking for, I do > use Dig also. I don't think anyone hates nslookup (well maybe a few do ) I