Search Again: Re: DNS Expert From: Michael Wise Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 Time: 10:45:19 pm At 19:42 -0800 1/28/04, Scott Haneda wrote: >I see DNS Expert only runs on Windows=A9 95/98/NT, Windows 2000=A9 and Mac= =A9 OS, >that must mean no OS X. Will there ever be a OS X version of this great >tool? > >If there are no plans, is anyone aware of some scripts that can be run to >get the same results. Men and Mice has said that there are no plans for=20 an OS X version. The best advice I can give is to=20 become very familiar with your CLI tools like=20 dig, host, whois, etc. Naturally, one has to have=20 a reasonably good understanding of proper zone=20 file configs for the results of those tools to=20 mean anything. As always, DNS & BIND=20 (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns4/index.html)=20 remains indispensable, and I've found the DNS &=20 BIND Cookbook=20 (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dnsbindckbk/index.html=20 ) to be very informative as well. As far as automated zone checking tools go, the=20 best we have (and its not too shabby) is=20 dnsreports.com. > >I found this <http://www.visi.com/~barr/dnswalk/> but I am not sure how goo= d >it is, plus, it needs some perl stuff I do not have. I haven't used it, although I plan to check it=20 out (thanks for the lead). All the items it needs=20 are easily achieved on OS X. Just install the dev=20 tools and run CPAN top install the needed Perl=20 modules: $sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> install Net::DNS cpan> install IO:Socket cpan> exit # exit --Mike

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