From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 23 12:19:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6870C37B62F for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:19:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 29007 invoked by uid 0); 23 Jun 2000 19:19:16 -0000 Received: from pc19f5a93.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (193.159.90.147) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 23 Jun 2000 19:19:16 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19779 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:11:53 +0200 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:11:53 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird NSLOOKUP output... Message-ID: <20000623181153.V9883@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200006230337.UAA07934@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from blk@skynet.be on Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 10:48:14AM +0200 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 10:48 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 8:37 PM -0700 2000/6/22, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > > However, as I've noted here before, there is a pitfall. Most > > application programs don't call the resolver routines directly. > > Correct. However, nslookup violated this procedure, by skipping > the standard routines, and going directly to the resolver. So, it > would not show you the same kind of behaviour other programs would. This might be due to the name *ns*lookup, I guess. :) Everything else would be misleading ... virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message