Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 22:47:59 +0100 From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>, Avleen Vig <avleen@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Replacing BIND with unbound Message-ID: <8D942592-3662-4FBA-BA61-2A010452BF70@exonetric.com> In-Reply-To: <86a9z8mxa1.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <CA%2BQLa9B-Dm-=hQCrbEgyfO4sKZ5aG72_PEFF9nLhyoy4GRCGrA@mail.gmail.com> <4FF2E00E.2030502@FreeBSD.org> <86bojxow6x.fsf@ds4.des.no> <89AB703D-E075-4AAC-AC1B-B358CC4E4E7F@lists.zabbadoz.net> <4FF8C3A1.9080805@FreeBSD.org> <20472.51031.308284.775990@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <4FF8C890.9030408@FreeBSD.org> <CAMjP1KmVDJuKw09UFXb2M6QaL1dD1ocSjMOZLtjKiYFYoF9f4Q@mail.gmail.com> <4FFA7174.7050604@FreeBSD.org> <CAMjP1K=MahXEgHM-gKHFfDpQRDXY_0LGTn0JEE0Zm43%2Bh5jfPA@mail.gmail.com> <4FFA7980.4000707@FreeBSD.org> <CAMjP1K=b8mwqe31m=OqjUV%2BF=B85L4vpfT%2BDj00a1voPB-8TwA@mail.gmail.com> <D49E4B08-AC64-48C0-B918-94A7E30AB981@exonetric.com> <4FFB46A4.5050504@FreeBSD.org> <1E29121E-62B1-4929-BB7B-4FCA5D893F51@exonetric.com> <86a9z8mxa1.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On 9 Jul 2012, at 22:37, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> writes: >> my DNS resolution is broken, so my ports can't download any tarballs.=20= >> In this case, I reach for dig to see which part of the DNS resolution >> chain is failing me.=20 >>=20 >> At the bare minimum, 'dig' should be an alias for 'drill', which I = have=20 >> to say isn't working brilliantly for me on OS X. It suggests I use = '-t'=20 >> and then keeps suggesting I use '-t' even when I do use it. >>=20 >> drill feels a bit rough around the edges to me. >=20 > This reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) American grade school > teacher who complained that the metric system was so inexact; for > instance, a meter is _approximately_ a yard, a kilometer is > _approximately_ two thirds of a kilometer, etc. >=20 > By which I mean, of course, that you are blaming drill not for its own > shortcomings, but for those of the wrapper you use to _approximate_ = dig > with drill. >=20 > The -t option doesn't mean the same for drill as for dig. A proper = dig > wrapper for drill would have to translate one to the other. However, > you should never need the -t option when using dig; I suspect that it > exists only for people who are so used to host that they want to use = the > same command line except for s/host/dig/. I never use '-t' with dig. drill *told* me I should use '-t' then completely failed to acknowledge I had done so. Marks-Macbook% drill -t www.google.com ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 14583 ;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0=20 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;; www.google.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.google.com. 44089 IN CNAME www.l.google.com. www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.106 www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.147 www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.104 www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.105 www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.103 www.l.google.com. 147 IN A 173.194.67.99 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ;; Query time: 34 msec ;; SERVER: 178.250.72.130 ;; WHEN: Mon Jul 9 22:46:13 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 148 ;; WARNING: The answer packet was truncated; you might want to ;; query again with TCP (-t argument), or EDNS0 (-b for buffer size)
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