Re: PTR records and software support (was Re: Revisiting DNS Notation

[Vernon Schryver <[e-mail]>]

> % I'm quite sure that 'dig' was already around in 1999 when you wrote that
> % the first time - I seem to remember building it at my previous job (which
> % I left in May 1989).  I know the author is lurking and will comment if
> % I got it blatantly wrong.. ;)

> The headers in DiG 2.0 indicate a 1987 date.

According to my fading recollections, it was in about 1987 that I
petitioned the author of nslookup to fix it to look for PTR records
when given a dotted-quad, and he obliged.  The version currently in
BSD/OS, FreeBSD, and elsewhere seems to do about the same as dig,
except with less noise.  If you like noise, try `nslookup -d 132.151.6.21`.

In other words, would you guys please stop feeding the trolls?  It's
easy to filter their noise, but hard to filter your responses.  You
guys have put so much chum in the waters and made so much noise with
the pikers that one of the Tier 1 IETF Trolls awoke from what I had
hoped was a permanent sleep.  At the rate you're going, you'll have
the other two Tier 1s thrashing around here in a feeding frenzy.
These are the Dog Days of Summer, but isn't a quiet nap better
entertainment than troll feeding?  If not, isn't there a better
place to do it?


Vernon Schryver    [e-mail]