Matthew Pounsett wrote: > Possibly related... on my systems where mtr cannot do forward lookups, > the +trace option to the default install of 'dig' also appears broken. > Can anyone else confirm that this is broken on their 10.5.4 machines > and/or working on 10.4? If anyone can confirm this then I'm going to > file the libresolv problem as a bug with Apple and see what they do.
Must be something on your machine or network. On 2 10.5.4 systems I get the output you say is correct, namely more or less the same as this one: > If dig is working, then it should provide output that looks like this: > > % dig +trace a.root-servers.net > > ; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> +trace a.root-servers.net > ;; global options: printcmd > . 345817 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > . 345817 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > ;; Received 440 bytes from 192.0.2.32#53(192.0.2.32) in 7 ms > > a.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 198.41.0.4 > root-servers.net. 3600000 IN NS k.root-servers.net. > root-servers.net. 3600000 IN NS j.root-servers.net. > root-servers.net. 3600000 IN NS a.root-servers.net. > root-servers.net. 3600000 IN NS f.root-servers.net. > ;; Received 274 bytes from 192.203.230.10#53(E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 72 ms -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel