Cat Okita <[email protected]> writes: > 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-...
Of *course* I understand the difference between testing a MTA with telnet and having a telnet daemon running. I frequently test mail servers exactly this way. Surely you're familiar with the idea of not installing unnecessary software on servers? >> 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... Well, that should depend on whether you believe nslookup is a bad tool or not. Since aol is the 800lb gorilla here, I'm going to end up installing crap, jumping through hoops, then uninstalling it. But that doesn't make any more reasonable. seph _______________________________________________ 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/
