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| Explanation for the weak by Senor Barborito 02/08/2003, 7:32pm PST | ||||
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| dig is a UNIX commandline tool that allows a user to directly view a requested domain's DNS information in raw format off any DNS server.
You know how you'll sometimes hear from good MS admins that they have this vague sense that equivalent *NIX admins 'sort of know their shit better' (obviously a wild generalization) or that they 'understand what's really going on underneath better'? dig is a perfect example of why this vague belief continues to exist - the commandline & standard utilities properly mastered (and I fully admit to being a complete beginner) are the most powerful tool in existence. It is impossible to seperate full knowledge of how the Internet *really* works, to a large extent, from the ability to use this tool. Is it annoying to have to edit an httpd.conf file by hand in a program that makes MS edit.com look user-friendly? Yeah, it is. But do you learn a whole hell of a lot more by doing so than you do in your six-clicks IIS setup? Answer left as a reader exercise. --SB Thanks to Entropy Stew for teaching/reminding me a lot of things during the creation of caltrops, btw. Example of dig for the curious, btw (caltrops.com digging itself, my comments prefixed with '<--'): $ dig @206.124.128.1 caltrops.com any <-- dig [@server] domain [query-type] [query-class] ; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> @206.124.128.1 caltrops.com any ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41371 ;; flags: qr rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 3, Auth: 2, Addit: 0 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; caltrops.com, type = ANY, class = IN ;; ANSWERS: caltrops.com. 21387 A 206.124.137.13 <-- Your Answer Lies Here, Zebco caltrops.com. 21387 NS dns22.register.com. caltrops.com. 21387 NS dns21.register.com. ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: caltrops.com. 21387 NS dns21.register.com. <-- Start Of Authority (SOA) caltrops.com. 21387 NS dns22.register.com. ;; Total query time: 47 msec ;; FROM: caltrops.com to SERVER: 206.124.128.1 ;; WHEN: Sat Feb 8 16:19:32 2003 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 30 rcvd: 123 $ |
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NO MORE SENORB CHAT? by 02/07/2003, 2:30am PST  None I'm afraid by 02/07/2003, 2:54am PST Ok, but why does irc.caltrops.com resolve? N/T NT by 02/08/2003, 2:27am PST USE 'DIG' YOU *NIX-IGNORANT FUCKER. *.caltrops.com resolves -NT- by 02/08/2003, 7:11pm PST Explanation for the weak by 02/08/2003, 7:32pm PST Re: Explanation for the weak by 02/08/2003, 11:05pm PST That's fucked up by 02/08/2003, 11:54pm PST Re: That's fucked up by 02/09/2003, 12:33am PST Well, I was wrong on one count but not that one by 02/09/2003, 2:11am PST *ahem* by 02/09/2003, 12:29am PST Well played, my enemy, well played . . . NT by 02/09/2003, 2:13am PST Because I threw it in for shits n' giggles -nt- NT by 02/09/2003, 2:59am PST Re: Because I threw it in for shits n' giggles -nt- by 02/09/2003, 8:02am PST A hilarious bit of parallel threading there N/T NT by 02/09/2003, 7:31pm PST Fucking Nancy Drew Clousseau faggots -nt- by 02/09/2003, 10:42pm PST |
