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Re: Nslookup

From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.php, comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Nslookup
Date	2011-05-16 21:15 -0400
Organization	albasani.net
Message-ID	<iqsi6l$8l1$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink)
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On 05/16/2011 07:06 PM, red floyd wrote:
> On May 16, 10:22 am, Lew<no...@lewscanon.com>  wrote:
>> Fred Zwarts wrote:
>>
>> Joe Snodgrass wrote ...
>>
>>>> Nslookup gives you the ability to change your DNS server, but how do
>>>> you find out what other DNS servers are available? TIA.
>>> Why posting in these newsgroups? I don't understand the relation with C++,
>>> php, or java [sic].
>>
>> Really?  You never have to diagnose or influence deployment issues as a
>> programmer?  Does your favorite programming language exist in a vacuum where
>> computers and networks and DNS servers have no relevance?
>>
>
> I wanted to know how an internal combustion engine works, and I knew
> my baker
> drives a car, so I asked him instead of a mechanic.

A poetic or self-evaluatedly clever riposte is fairly useless if it doesn't 
somehow embody a relevant point.  We aren't asking a baker about internal 
combustion engines' function, we're asking a baker if they have 
recommendations for a good oven.

If you fancy yourself a professional programmer, you had better have some 
understanding of how to get your program to run in the real world.  Nor clever 
(as you think) retorts, nor labored and inapplicable analogies will save your 
software.  Knowing how to set a DNS server might.  The question is entirely on 
topic for clj.programmer.  (Note the emphasis on programmer - it's for people 
who want results, not fanboys for labored or spaghetti languages.)

Joe, if you want to discuss this with people who will take your question 
seriously, please feel free to do so.  I apologize that I do not know how to 
answer your question, but I support your right to ask it.  At least among us 
practical-minded folk.

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Nslookup Joe Snodgrass <joe.snod@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-16 05:39 -0700
  Re: Nslookup "Fred Zwarts" <F.Zwarts@KVI.nl> - 2011-05-16 14:56 +0200
    Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-16 13:22 -0400
      Re: Nslookup red floyd <redfloyd@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 16:06 -0700
        Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-16 21:15 -0400
          Re: Nslookup bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-05-18 09:38 +0100
            Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-18 13:13 -0400
              Re: Nslookup Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-05-18 14:26 -0700
                Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-18 18:26 -0400
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-19 01:27 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-05-19 10:01 +0200
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-19 12:40 -0400
                Re: Nslookup dougatmilmacdotcom@example.com (Doug Miller) - 2011-05-19 17:15 +0000
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-19 13:25 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-19 13:45 -0400
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-19 14:04 -0400
                Re: Nslookup dougatmilmacdotcom@example.com (Doug Miller) - 2011-05-19 18:31 +0000
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-19 14:45 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-19 21:43 -0400
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-20 00:07 -0400
                Re: Nslookup The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-19 11:19 +0100
                Re: Nslookup Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-05-19 00:42 -0700
                Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-19 10:03 -0400
                Re: Nslookup thingamabob <thingamabob117@gmai1.c0m> - 2011-05-19 12:44 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-19 10:08 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-05-20 00:55 -0700
              Re: Nslookup bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-05-19 09:33 +0100
                Re: Nslookup The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-19 11:21 +0100
        Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-16 22:24 -0400
          Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-17 00:19 -0400
            Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-17 07:01 -0400
              Re: Nslookup Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-17 07:22 -0400
                Re: Nslookup The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-17 14:07 +0100
                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-17 12:32 -0400
              Re: Nslookup Bill B <me@privacy.net> - 2011-05-17 07:29 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-17 08:18 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Bill B <me@privacy.net> - 2011-05-17 08:30 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-17 10:31 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Bill B <me@privacy.net> - 2011-05-17 11:10 -0400
                Re: Nslookup The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-17 16:20 +0100
                Re: Nslookup Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-17 12:31 -0400
                Re: Nslookup Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> - 2011-05-17 17:55 +0100
                Re: Nslookup The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-17 14:08 +0100
  Re: Nslookup The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-16 17:23 +0100
  Re: Nslookup Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-17 09:06 +1200
  Re: Nslookup Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-05-16 21:36 -0700
    Re: Nslookup Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-17 16:50 +1200
      Re: Nslookup Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-05-16 23:02 -0700
        Re: Nslookup Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-17 19:09 +1200
          Re: Nslookup Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-17 08:52 +0000
            Re: Nslookup Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-18 13:07 +1200
          Re: Nslookup RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@spamweary.invalid> - 2011-05-17 17:48 +0100

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