On May 4, 2009, at 3:06 PM, seph wrote:
> They require that my hosts all have telnet installed on them, so I can
> cut and paste a telnet session.

Say yes, and send them SSH logs.  They don't know the difference.

> They require that I use *nslookup*, and paste examples. host isn't  
> good
> enough here. Let's hear it for lazy programming.

Host isn't good enough, as it doesn't include which server you are  
querying -- crucial to debugging some stuff.  But I've sent them dig  
results before and they don't complain.

Not that AOL's mail support doesn't such monkey butt, but these two  
issues aren't much.

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness



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