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DNS Expert Professional is unlikely to be ported to Mac OS X in the
near future.

The way to check for proper slave service is, send an iterative (i.e.
non-recursive) query to the slave server for the zone in question,
and see whether it returns an authoritative answer.

Actually, you should also check the SOA record to make sure it has
the same version of the zone as on your master server. Check to make
sure that the intended slave is not configured as a second master,
and that it has an up-to-date copy of the zone.
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

At 7:54 PM -0700 7/15/03, Scott Haneda wrote:
>I am pretty bummed that DNS expert did not make it to OS X, will it?
>
>I have become fairly agile in looking up what I need with host and dig,
>however, DNS expert could perform tasks much like a robot, rather than
>making me the robot :-)
>
>One thing I liked to do about once a month, was paste in a list of all the
>domains I have, in my case, a few hundred, and check only one thing, that is
>if my request for my secondary to slave the zones had been performed. Often
>was the case I forgot to let them know, or they forgot to do so.
>
>I asked this once before, and can not seem to locate the email that was
>sent, but I also remember leaving the email with some confusion, perhaps
>someone can explain to me the best way to do this type of lookup and what to
>look for.
>
>Even better would be someone who can suggest a small shell script that could
>be fed a return separated file of domains and return a simple true/false as
>to whether or not it is even being slaved at all.
>
>Will there be DNS Expert for OS X anytime in the future? Does anyone know
>of a competing tool, or set of shell/perl/* scripts that can accomplish the
>same?
>
>Thanks
>
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>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602
>http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052
>scott@newgeo.com Novato, CA U.S.A.

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