On Mon, 4 May 2009, seph wrote: > They require that my hosts all have telnet installed on them, so I can > cut and paste a telnet session. Because, you know, my mail server logs > aren't good enough and I love having random software installed on my > machines.
The last time I checked, you can't do interactive sessions with mail servers logs -- personally I find telnet to be a useful debugging tool for text-based services (smtp, http...). You are aware that there's a difference between the telnet -client- and the telnet -server-... > They require that I use *nslookup*, and paste examples. host isn't good > enough here. Let's hear it for lazy programming. What's lazy programming here? They're asking you to use a commonly available tool with a standard output that's well known to their tech support people, rather than trying to program around whatever somebody might care to hand them. Controlling your data format is a perfectly legitimate concept... > Who knows what else, since I still need to jump through those two hoops. I can see that we've got very different definitions of what constitutes a hoop to jump through here... > Anyhow, I'm not sure there's much to discuss. I mostly just feel the > need to rant about their capricious and vacuous requirements. Odd. I found their setup and requirements perfectly straightforward. cheers! ========================================================================== "A cat spends her life conflicted between a deep, passionate and profound desire for fish and an equally deep, passionate and profound desire to avoid getting wet. This is the defining metaphor of my life right now." _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
