looking up rr.com associated ptr and a records (problem?)

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg A Woods <woods at weird.com> writes:

    Greg> (I think 'dig' is extremely ugly and archane -- and it has
    Greg> very few automated verification and validation tools
    Greg> built-in, things I find invaluable in 'host', such as '-C',
    Greg> '-A', '-E', '-D', etc.)

This is why dig is so useful IMHO. It shows you exactly what was in
the DNS packet: no more, no less. Automated verification and
valudation tools are all very well -- assuming they can be made to
always work properly which is debatable. However these tools can be a
hindrance rather than a help. Instead of debugging the real problem,
someone could be stuck trying to debug the idiosyncracies or
assumptions of those tools. [Remember how nslookup (spit!) fails if
it can't reverse lookup the server it queries?] Note that I'm not
saying that these fancy options are host are broken, whatever it is
they do. They're just not as valuable as analysing a name server's
responses with dig.