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Excuse my ignorance, but what's wrong with nslookup and ifconfig?
short answer: `/bin/ip` replaces `ifconfig` -- it's newer and more powerful more info: http://www.tty1.net/blog/2010/ifconfig-ip-comparison_en.html
I'd also recommend any sysadmin to start looking into an automation framework like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or any other of the myriad options.
I just started digging into chef with the intention of using with AWS opsworks and... holy complexity. There just doesn't seem to be any obvious entry point, as far as I can tell. I've spent two entire days searching and there doesn't seem to be anything in between "hello wordpress" and "read this 300+ page user manual". Can anyone recommend a hands on guide for setting up a multi-node stack with opsworks that isn't…
I'd also recommend any sysadmin to start looking into an automation framework like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or any other of the myriad options.
Absolutely. Automate relentlessly. As a bonus, the recipes/playbooks you develop serve as documentation for how things are configured.
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They've been replaced with ipadm/dladm: http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/GeneralAdministration And dnsip/dnsipq/dnsmx/dnsname/dnstxt: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tools.html
What? Your reply seems purposefully disingenuous and misleading. The ipadm and dladm commands seem to be specific to Solaris and derivatives. And I can not believe that you are seriously proposing that the new standard commands for doing DNS is to use DJB’s tools. What the original post most likely referred to is to use ip instead of ifconfig , and to use dig instead of nslookup .
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What? Your reply seems purposefully disingenuous and misleading. The ipadm and dladm commands seem to be specific to Solaris and derivatives. And I can not believe that you are seriously proposing that the new standard commands for doing DNS is to use DJB’s tools. What the original post most likely referred to is to use ip instead of ifconfig , and to use dig instead of nslookup .
I use dig, but in the name of correctedness, dig is as much a BIND tool as the others are djbdns tools.
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They've been replaced with ipadm/dladm: http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/GeneralAdministration And dnsip/dnsipq/dnsmx/dnsname/dnstxt: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tools.html
What? Your reply seems purposefully disingenuous and misleading. The ipadm and dladm commands seem to be specific to Solaris and derivatives. And I can not believe that you are seriously proposing that the new standard commands for doing DNS is to use DJB’s tools. What the original post most likely referred to is to use ip instead of ifconfig , and to use dig instead of nslookup .
The Linux way isn't always the way the rest of Unix is going. In fact, most of our current OS's are a hodgepodge of different great things developed by different teams - for example, rsync from the Samba devs, sudo from OpenBSD, git from Linux, etc.
This is one of the great things about Unix is that it's a big sandbox to play in. The entire "lets replace init" movement from the last 10 years is pretty fascinating in it's own right. Spend some time looking at how the other crowds out there are doing things - you might find something interesting and helpful.