RE: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Lightner, Jeff
bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: about the dig Feng: I think G.W is pointing out that in the absence of resolv.conf, dig uses the localhost to connect to the bind server. Just tcpdump the loopback interface, and you will see it. So the reason resolution works is because you are running bind on t

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread eugene tsuno
Feng: I think G.W is pointing out that in the absence of resolv.conf, dig uses the localhost to connect to the bind server. Just tcpdump the loopback interface, and you will see it. So the reason resolution works is because you are running bind on that server. It would not work on any client wh

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Lyle Giese
On 7/19/2011 1:16 AM, Feng He wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Marc Lampo wrote: the list cannot be built-in, because some organisations work with an internal root. The local caching name server is the only one to know those "new" root's.) I don't think so. BIND 9 has the built-in

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Phil Mayers
On 07/19/2011 06:32 AM, Feng He wrote: Hi list, When I deleted all the entries in /etc/resolv.conf (I am using Linux), dig can't work. I was thinking since dig is a standard resolver, it should have the capibility to follow the referrel from root, thus it will work fine even there is no system d

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Feng He
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:47 PM, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > man resolv.conf > > " If  this file doesn't exist the only name server to be queried will be on > the local machine; the domain name is determined from the >       hostname and the domain search path is constructed from the domain > name.

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 wrote: > When I deleted all the entries in /etc/resolv.conf (I am using > Linux), dig can't work. > > I was thinking since dig is a standard resolver... man resolv.conf " If this file doesn't exist the only name server to be queried will be on the local machine

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Feng He
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Marc Lampo wrote: > the list cannot be built-in, because some organisations work with an > internal >  root.  The local caching name server is the only one to know those "new" > root's.) > I don't think so. BIND 9 has the built-in root list. __

RE: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Marc Lampo
root. The local caching name server is the only one to know those "new" root's.) Kind regards, Marc Lampo -Original Message- From: Feng He [mailto:short...@gmail.com] Sent: 19 July 2011 07:54 AM To: Marc Lampo Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: about the dig at

Re: about the dig

2011-07-18 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Feng He wrote: > Hi list, > > When I deleted all the entries in /etc/resolv.conf (I am using Linux), > dig can't work. > I was thinking since dig is a standard resolver, what makes you think that? From the man page dig (domain information groper) is a fle

Re: about the dig

2011-07-18 Thread Feng He
at least from my point "dig hostname +trace" should work even if there is no resolv.conf entries. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Marc Lampo wrote: > I guess not, since "it" does not work ;-) > > After deleting all entries, did you : > 1) dig @dns.name. ... > or > 2) dig @IP.address > or > 3) N

RE: about the dig

2011-07-18 Thread Marc Lampo
I guess not, since "it" does not work ;-) After deleting all entries, did you : 1) dig @dns.name. ... or 2) dig @IP.address or 3) No "@..." argument used at all ? In cases 1 & 3, dig will need data from /etc/resolv.conf. Only in case 2 dig can do without. Kind regards, Marc Lampo -Origina