Re: [DNSOP] Unexpected behaviour of dig +trace

Evan Hunt <each@isc.org> Wed, 26 March 2014 16:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Unexpected behaviour of dig +trace
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 06:52:44PM +0800, Warren Kumari wrote:
> "Feature", but does catch many folk by surprise.
> I'd written a patch and given it to someone at ISC that makes dig
> output a warning message if you hand it both the "+trace" and
> "@server" options. Dunno what happened, but never got integrated...

My apologies for not sending feedback directly. (That's something
we really need to work on.) IIRC, we opted to clarify the documentation
rather than add a warning to dig itself.  There's also a knowledge base
article on this topic at http://tinyurl.com/o37rpgm.

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Evan Hunt -- each@isc.org
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