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Date:      Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:57:44 +0800 (WST)
From:      Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>
To:        francis@usls.edu (Francis A. Vidal)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: better way of managing dns
Message-ID:  <199909170457.MAA11220@laurasia.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909171247580.513-100000@atlas.usls.edu> from "Francis A. Vidal" at "Sep 17, 1999 12:48:37 pm"

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> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Doug wrote:
> 
> > > is there a tool to manage dns a little easier?
> > 
> > 	DNS is not easy to manage. The only "tools" that will really
> > help you are education and experience. That said, if you go to your
> > /usr/ports directory and type "make search key=dns" you will get some
> > suggestions. However you should be aware that trying to use those
> > tools without thoroughly understanding what you are doing is likely to
> > cause you more harm than good.
> 
> looks like i have to deal with it :) thanks for the tip. the only DNS
> tools in the port are dnslint and dnswalk.
> 

There is also 'dig' in the main dist. Check out 'man dig' for details.

Mike Kennett
(mike@laurasia.com.au)


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