[ldns-users] Various fixes

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Sat Aug 25 19:15:10 UTC 2012


On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, Miek Gieben wrote:

>> It's the same as with other compatibility efforts: to save a day
>> of debugging for some poor soul stuck with maintaining crazy
>> code base behind a misconfigured DNS server, that relies on a
>> particular behavior of "host -i".
>>
>> Case in point:
>>
>>     $ host -i ::1
>>     1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.int
>> domain name pointer localhost.
>
> Now I don't get this... This example is live on your system?
>
> Because if I do this:
>
> % host -i ::1
> Host 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.int not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> Which proves David's point...?

Same here. Also, the "host" and "nslookup" command have been deprecated
for years, almost as long as netstat and ifconfig/route. Maybe we can
hope bind10 won't ship them anymore :)

Paul



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