On 17 Nov 2011, at 5:36 am, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

>> 1) Isn't it fairly standard to use two hyphens for long options like this?
> 
> Yeah, well, this is a diagnostic tool.

So are ping, netstat, traceroute, nmap, ... does that excuse them from using a 
conventional argument syntax?

>> 2) It would be helpful to have a more descriptive message than just
>> "Hard error."  If the arguments are incorrect, it should say so.
> 
> Actually, it thought that the argument were correct, and proceeded to look up 
> this hostname in DNS, didn't find it, hence the "Hard error".

A clearer error message, such as "hard error: unable to resolve -dnssec", would 
alleviate the confusion.

b

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