On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, James Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:59 PM, William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net> wrote:
For someone who is a CCNA, Mikrotik Certified Whatever, etc, etc, etc, you really should know how to use dig(1).
Certifications usually only suggest certain skills or knowledge they were designed to validate, and sometimes might fail even at that; dig(1) or detailed DNS knowledge is not scoped within either of those certs, as far as I know..
Whilst that's almost certainly right, I had a lot of trouble finding a google search that _didn't_ return something relevant as it's first hit (such as ARIN's whois, or one of several guides on how to use dig/etc for reverse DNS). Of course, they don't teach google in any certification I've come across either, but... Scott