[52571] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Thanks! Re: Re: Root DNS Server Issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Fri Oct 4 21:40:50 2002
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:40:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>
To: Bodie Francis <Bodie@NeedHighSpeed.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <28A804CA68651348A9AA5EFFE3AD92980919DD@mail3.needhighspeed.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Bodie Francis wrote:
> I am sure Doug and others could use this to reduce the typing (the reason
> Unix was invented) when doing recursive queries for delegations (it even
> identifies lame delegations quite nicely.)
Sorry if I wasn't clear. My example was intended to be pedantic, as
opposed to actually being useful. dnstracer is an interesting program, but
I have a home-grown tool of my own that I use for day to day delegation
chain sniffing. The dig in bind 9 also has a new trace option that's
fairly useful.
Doug
