about the dig

[Marc Lampo]

I guess not, since "it" does not work ;-)

After deleting all entries, did you :
1) dig @dns.name. ...
or
2) dig @IP.address
or
3) No "@..." argument used at all ?

In cases 1 & 3, dig will need data from /etc/resolv.conf.
Only in case 2 dig can do without.

Kind regards,

Marc Lampo


-----Original Message-----
From: Feng He [mailto:shorttag at gmail.com] 
Sent: 19 July 2011 07:33 AM
To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: about the dig

Hi list,

When I deleted all the entries in /etc/resolv.conf (I am using Linux),
dig can't work.
I was thinking since dig is a standard resolver, it should have the
capibility to follow the referrel from root, thus it will work fine
even there is no system dns resolving.
Am I right?

Thanks.