The reason for attempting direct interaction is that the page I have here
has about 200+ domains on it and it is growing every day and every custom
tag I have tried can't cope with the volume.
--
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zac Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: NSLookup
> James Smith wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Here is a problem I have been pulling my hair out over. I want to do an
> > NSLookup directly (ie: no custom tags if it can be avoided) and have
tried
> > both w3sockets and TCPClient to open the socket but not for love nor
money
> > can I find the appropriate commands to send.
> >
> > I can use either to connect to a POP3 server, login, read mail etc....
but I
> > just cant get DNS queries to work.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the correct direction?
>
> honestly the best advice here is don't re-invent the wheel.. use
> cfexecute and dig from sendmail/bind or maybe a java class
>
> this code using dig will give u really detailed info about dns
>
> <cfsavecontent variable="dig_out"><cfexecute name="#server.dig_exe#"
> arguments="#attributes.domain# +nssearch " timeOut="5"></cfexecute>
> </cfsavecontent>
> <cfscript>
> soa_pos=FindNoCase("SOA",dig_out,1);
> if (soa_pos gt 0){
> soa_server=ListGetAt(dig_out,2," ");
> request.mod.dnsdig.status=1;
> } else {
> // name server soa not found!
> soa_server="";
> request.mod.dnsdig.status=-1;
> }
> </cfscript>
> <cfif len(soa_server) gt 0>
> <cfsavecontent variable="request.mod.dnsdig.info"><pre>
> <cfexecute name="#server.dig_exe#"
> arguments="@#soa_server# #attributes.domain# axfr +multiline"
> timeOut="5"></cfexecute></pre></cfsavecontent>
>
> the short explanation is SOA is the master server for a domain, u can
> only get the detailed info from the master server, you first get the SOA
> server, then u query the SOA server for the domain info
>
>
> is there a reason why you don't want to use custom tags??? what are u
> wanting to do?
>
> z
>
>
>
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