Sean Ware wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) @ > 2006.01.31 11:21:47 -0800: >> Hence services like www.whatismyip.com >> >> What I think would be really nice is a new kind of DNS >> record... something like WHOAMI... that provides this kind of a >> service. So for example >> >> dig -t WHOAMI your-friendly-neighborhood-dns-server.example.com >> >> would return (in the ANSWER section) the IP address that >> your-friendly-neighborhood-dns-server sees the request coming from. > > I think this would probably just yield the public IP address of your > DNS resolver, unless you queried the service's own DNS server > directly.
Good point. Still useful if /etc/resolv.conf is "nameserver 127.0.0.1" but less generally useful than I had thought. -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
