Search Again: Re: Re: domain name doesn''t resolve - working better b From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 Time: 2:55:00 am At 4:24 PM -0800 3/22/00, Global Homes Webmaster wrote: >On 03/22/00 at 15:55, Men & Mice Support wrote: > >> I'm using DNS Expert's DNS Query tool to find (or in this case, >> verify) this information; it has a nice little summary at the top of >> each result, including an indicator of authority or non-authority. >> >> So when I sent the same query as Mr. Bort, I saw the same answer, but >> with lower numbers. I also saw that the answer was marked as >> non-authoritative. >> >> Mr. Bort used dig, probably on a Unix host, to find this information. >> It's very similar to DNS Expert's DNS Query tool (and predates our >> tool by a very long time), except we've formatted the results much >> more nicely. :) > >Hehe. I also have DNS Expert (since it came with QuickDNS) and I use it >sometimes. It depends on the phase of the moon and my mood at any given time. >8^) Even though my workstation and primary OS (since 1985) is MacOS and I >have several MacOS DNS query utilities, I've found that I usually prefer dig >and nslookup (both UNIX programs running on a tame LinuxPPC box in my office). >In the particular case of DNS queries (certainly not true in most cases), >their command line interface seems more flexible and faster/easier to get the >info I'm looking for. Also, dig displays the records in the same form as it >receives them, which seems helpful in some cases -- at least to me. Yup. There are a few instances where DNS Expert, for whatever reason, won't display everything it receives. Dig has no such limitation. And once you get the hang of the syntax, it's quite easy to use: dig @server name type e.g.: dig @nserver.apple.com www.apple.com A which queries one of Apple's DNS servers for A records for their web site. However, I still think that, when it works right, DNS Expert's output is easier to read. :) ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Re: Re: domain name doesn''t resolve - working better b by JWBaumann@aol.com on Mar 22, 2000 at 9:58:00 pm Re: Re: domain name doesn''t resolve - working better b by Global Homes Webmaster on Mar 22, 2000 at 11:49:00 pm Re: Re: domain name doesn''t resolve - working better b by Men & Mice Support on Mar 22, 2000 at 11:55:00 pm Re: Re: domain name doesn''t resolve - working better b by Global Homes Webmaster on Mar 23, 2000 at 12:24:00 am Re: Re: domain name doesn''t resolve - working better b by Men & Mice Support on Mar 23, 2000 at 2:55:00 am