Re: host versus nslookup

2011-10-13 Thread listmail
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:33:30 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote If you're concern about what address programs gets when they resolve host names, then getent is a better choice as it also respects nsswitch.conf and hosts file. According to the (almost useless) manpage for getent, all it does is

Re: host versus nslookup

2011-10-13 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:05 PM, listmail listm...@entertech.com wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:33:30 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote If you're concern about what address programs gets when they resolve host names, then getent is a better choice as it also respects nsswitch.conf and hosts file.

Re: host versus nslookup

2011-10-13 Thread Phil Mayers
On 10/13/2011 07:05 AM, listmail wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:33:30 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote If you're concern about what address programs gets when they resolve host names, then getent is a better choice as it also respects nsswitch.conf and hosts file. According to the (almost

Re: host versus nslookup

2011-10-13 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
host is four characters shorter. Use `dig' and save 25% ;-) `nslookup' must die. (Until a few years ago, it printed a deprecation notice which, unfortunately, has since been removed.) -JP ___ Please visit

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-13 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
I'm looking for success (or failure) stories to back up my statement :) Thank you all for replies, on and off-list. If you are interested in a summary, I've posted it at [1]. Regards, -JP [1] http://dnssexy.net/538 ___ Please visit

Re: fallback to forwarder if master zone does not have requested record

2011-10-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 13, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Moser, Stefan (SIDB) wrote: in customer migrations, when we shift customers from an old DNS environment to a new DNS environment, there are sometimes situations where we have to keep the same domain (let’s say “example.com”) both on the old DNS-server and on the

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-13 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At 11 Oct 2011 13:57:38 +0100, Chris Thompson c...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Maybe an off topic in this thread, but out of curiosity, is there any specific reason you don't use the database as the direct source of the zone with BIND 9's dlz or PowerDNS? In general it will be slower, and I can't

Re: fallback to forwarder if master zone does not have requested record

2011-10-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/13/2011 08:51, Chuck Swiger wrote: Um, yeah. If you configure a nameserver to be authoritative for a zone, then that zone needs to have every valid record. If an authoritative nameserver doesn't have all valid records, someone is doing it wrong. Big +1. Having the same zone be