Re: [SLE] DVDs 4U (Was: "Disappointed in 9.3")

3 Jul 2005

      Andreas Philipp wrote:
...
Ken:
El Sáb 02 Jul 2005 16:00, ken escribió:
...
So I'm still having the same problem, i.e., not in gzip format.
I experienced similar problems which I found out were related to failed DNS 
server queries. If, for example, I run 'dig Linux.z.zoy.org', I get the 
following error:
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> Linux.z.zoy.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
This is true for every host name but 'and'; this last one returns the 
authoritative name servers for zoy.org, which helps to adjust the script:
==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
#!/bin/bash --norc
  for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and; do
     dig @ns1.zoy.org $DVDs.z.zoy.org;
    done \
| perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' \
   | gunzip
==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
I'm not having the same issue... or didn't.  Maybe more people are
hitting the servers now, causing the timeouts (?).

I save each dig output in the loop separately. The first three all start:

;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet.
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> the.z.zoy.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:

Then below ";; ANSWER SECTION:" have multiple lines of mostly unreadable
letters and numbers.

The fourth time through the dig look-- looking up and.z.zoy.org-- the
output is significantly (?) different:  There I just get this:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> and.z.zoy.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9099
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;and.z.zoy.org.                 IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
and.z.zoy.org.          86400   IN      A       80.65.228.129

;; Query time: 262 msec
;; SERVER: 64.81.159.2#53(64.81.159.2)
;; WHEN: Sat Jul  2 17:09:51 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 47

What's the perl part of the command/script supposed to do with this?

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