From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 25 19:20: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gti.net (apollo.gti.net [199.171.27.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0DD14C01 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:19:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shadow@apollo.gti.net) Received: from localhost (shadow@localhost) by gti.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13171; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:19:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:19:26 -0500 (EST) From: Shadow To: Chris Johnson Cc: Chris Byrnes , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: host -t requests. In-Reply-To: <02fb01bf67aa$61f4d600$2201000a@ft0dd> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I remember correctly DNS servers round-robin that info, host is probably just returning in the same order the server did. Dig returns a similar pattern of ordering. $ host -t ns jeah.net jeah.net name server NS1.jeah.net jeah.net name server NS2.jeah.net $ host -t ns jeah.net jeah.net name server NS1.jeah.net jeah.net name server NS2.jeah.net $ host -t ns jeah.net jeah.net name server NS2.jeah.net jeah.net name server NS1.jeah.net $ host -t ns jeah.net jeah.net name server NS2.jeah.net jeah.net name server NS1.jeah.net -Shadow shadow@gti.net On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Chris Johnson wrote: > > [chris@shell] [~]$ host -t ns jeah.net > > jeah.net name server ns2.jeah.net > > jeah.net name server ns1.jeah.net > > [chris@shell] [~]$ host -t ns kirenet.com > > kirenet.com name server NS2.kirenet.com > > kirenet.com name server NS1.kirenet.com > > [chris@shell] [~]$ > > > > Is there any reason that they appear in descending order? > > What's descending about the order? Should they be alphabetical or something? > > Chris > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message