Re: [hobbit] dns query output

[henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:43:17AM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:46:29AM, Henrik Storner wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 06:33:21PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 03:53:16PM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > > >
> > > > How does hobbit/bbtest-net use to get the dns query output? I am not
> > > > using the --no-ares hook. I thought it uses dig @server host, but I am
> > > > probably wrong about that.
> > 
> > It uses the c-ares library to perform the DNS queries, then formats the
> > results into what you see.
> 
> I was wondering if I there is a example query I can run to show
> technical groups. Ofcourse the web shows the output but may be from cli
> if I could run an example it would be cool.

If you compile the c-ares library - the source tar.gz file is included
in Hobbit - the output is very similar to that of the "adig" utility.
(I think you'll have to run "make adig" to build that).


Henrik