[ILUG] Request for participation

Colm MacCárthaigh colmmacc at redbrick.dcu.ie
Mon Mar 25 21:39:16 GMT 2002


On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:35:24PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Richard Liston (liston at cc.gatech.edu):
> 
> >   http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~liston/dnsperf.html
> 
> 1.  It's binary-only.
> 2.  Although it's said to not need to run as a priviged user,
>     it needs to be able to communicate on sockets across the Net.
> 3.  People are explicitly advised that they run it at their own risk.
> 
> Some will find these facts peculiar.
> 
> My own paranoia's in remission ;->  , but it's too bad you don't offer
> matching source code on the same Web page.

it seems to comprise entirely of off the shelf standard stuff, bind,
nslookup, dig , not much else. Just staicly compiled. The download
is a waste of bandwidth.

If they've been modified, patches would be nice to see.

-- 
colmmacc at redbrick.dcu.ie            webmaster at redbrick.dcu.ie

"Windows Excel and Windows Word were written in vi"
					-- The Register




More information about the ILUG mailing list