Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:34:16 -0400 From: Mohan Singh <mohansingh68@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server? Message-ID: <48d803190510251934g1d04bbe6sdcdac8b0c3591062@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48d803190510250633k93e3934n7f1dd2bca493e21e@mail.gmail.com> References: <48d803190510250633k93e3934n7f1dd2bca493e21e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/25/05, Mohan Singh <mohansingh68@gmail.com> wrote: > How would I connect to a nameserver and talk to it so I can know it is > working? I get as far as connecting to the port, but I don't know how to > make it send back anything meaningful. Thanks to all who replied. The best answer I got came from someone who emailed me offline and told me that even if I connected sucessfully to the nameserver, I couldn't get back anything readable because the DNS protocol is binary. I guess host/nslookup/dig is the proper way to do this.
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