[82099] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DNS .US outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Fri Jul 8 15:54:32 2005
In-Reply-To: <17100.47971.582142.71933@roam.psg.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 11:10:51 +0200
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 7:19 PM -1000 2005-07-06, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Thanks. Didn't have any *NIX boxes laying around to 'dig' any deeper.
>
> i believe even windoze has dig at the command line, though i don't
> know in what directory it lies.
That's assuming you have installed BIND for Windows, which most
people probably have not done. They do have ping, nslookup, and a
few other command-line tools, but then very few people using Windows
seem to know how to use the command-line, or even know how to start
it up.
Good guess, though.
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