Post #202,209
4/6/05 12:22:01 PM
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Re: Pinging a domain?
All that's happening is that you're pinging whatever IP address example.domain.com resolves to; if the Windows DNS server is setting up a PTR record for each subdomain, then it'll be pingable. I'd expect the record to point to the nameserver.
Move along, nothing to see here ;-)
Peter
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Post #202,239
4/6/05 2:43:22 PM
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That's what I thought
So, is this a 'ticklist feature' or just another thing that some MS developer thought would be cool?
In either case, what is this supposed to prove? Is there a real-world use for this in place of existing tools?
I mean, I can pipe the output of nslookup to ping and get all the nameservers for that domain.
Tom Sinclair
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Post #202,279
4/6/05 10:49:50 PM
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Absolutely nuffink.
It is an inane "feature"
If you have a wildcard DNS setup to deal with the names not defined then that should work the same.
Bind won't do it automagically, as that would break DNS according to the RFCs... Which kind of sounds like Windows would do that by default.
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Post #202,282
4/7/05 12:47:26 AM
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That's what I suspected
I told my students that this was probably another non-standard MS implementation of
DNS, since I remembered what they did with Kerberos.
Good to know I'm not completely senile.
Thanks for the quick responses, Peter and Greg. You're helping me fight the
propaganda war here.
Tom Sinclair
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-- The Bursar is a man under a *lot* of stress
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Post #202,284
4/7/05 1:30:40 AM
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I'll take a moment to plug MaraDNS, then
Easy to set up and more secure than BIND! Zone files that aren't gibberish! In the public domain! Small! Fast!
Peter
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Post #202,315
4/7/05 10:22:27 AM
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I'll check it out!
Tom Sinclair
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-- The Bursar is a man under a *lot* of stress
(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
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Post #202,331
4/7/05 1:45:35 PM
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I still like BIND.
It has come a long ways since Bind 4.
It now drop privs, after startup, just like SSH does now. It works on so many platforms it isn't even funny.
I like Bind, because I know it. MaraDNS is easy, very easy. I just like the flexibility of Bind to give me what I want.
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