Re: back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 15 February 2013 08:23 UTC

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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:19:53 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>
Subject: Re: back by popular demand - a DNS calculator
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 03:02:48PM -0800,
 Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> wrote 
 a message of 16 lines which said:

> By popular request, I've restored the DNS calculator function as an
> operational service. 

Why no delegation from postel.org? It is not really DNS if you have to
use an explicit name server.


% dig @128.9.160.161 ANY 3.4.add.calc.postel.org


; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @128.9.160.161 ANY 3.4.add.calc.postel.org
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 30695
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;3.4.add.calc.postel.org.	IN	ANY

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
postel.org.		15	IN	SOA	dns.postel.org. touch.postel.org. 2013021402 60 30 1209600 15

;; Query time: 195 msec
;; SERVER: 128.9.160.161#53(128.9.160.161)
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 15 09:19:33 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 98