On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Feng He <short...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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,
what makes you think that? From the man page dig (domain information groper) is a flexible tool for interrogating DNS name servers. It performs DNS lookups and displays the answers that are returned from the name server(s) that were queried. > it should have the > capibility to follow the referrel from root, thus it will work fine > even there is no system dns resolving. A resolver software capable of recursive operation should work fine. dig's not it. > Am I right? Also from the man page: Unless it is told to query a specific name server, dig will try each of the servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf. So something like "dig google.com @8.8.8.8" would work even without any entries on /etc/resolv.conf, but if you don't tell it to use a specific name server it won't work. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users