Re: host versus nslookup

2011-10-13 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:05 PM, listmail wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:33:30 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote >> If you're concern about what address programs gets when they resolve >> host names, then getent is a better choice as it also respects >> nsswitch.conf and hosts file. >> > According to

Re: host versus nslookup

2011-10-13 Thread Phil Mayers
On 10/13/2011 07:05 AM, listmail wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:33:30 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote If you're concern about what address programs gets when they resolve host names, then getent is a better choice as it also respects nsswitch.conf and hosts file. According to the (almost useless)

Re: host versus nslookup

2011-10-13 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> host is four characters shorter. Use `dig' and save 25% ;-) `nslookup' must die. (Until a few years ago, it printed a deprecation notice which, unfortunately, has since been removed.) -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-13 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I'm looking for success (or failure) stories to back up my statement :) Thank you all for replies, on and off-list. If you are interested in a summary, I've posted it at [1]. Regards, -JP [1] http://dnssexy.net/538 ___ Please visit

Re: fallback to forwarder if master zone does not have requested record

2011-10-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 13, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Moser, Stefan (SIDB) wrote: > in customer migrations, when we shift customers from an old DNS environment > to a new DNS environment, there are sometimes situations where we have to > keep the same domain (let’s say “example.com”) both on the old DNS-server and > on

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-13 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At 11 Oct 2011 13:57:38 +0100, Chris Thompson wrote: > >> Maybe an off topic in this thread, but out of curiosity, is there any > >> specific reason you don't use the database as the direct source of the > >> zone with BIND 9's dlz or PowerDNS? In general it will be slower, and > > > >I can't sp

Re: fallback to forwarder if master zone does not have requested record

2011-10-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/13/2011 08:51, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Um, yeah. If you configure a nameserver to be authoritative for a zone, then > that zone needs to have every valid record. If an authoritative nameserver > doesn't have all valid records, someone is doing it wrong. Big +1. Having the same zone be diff