Re: [Exim] how to configure HELO/EHLO and DNS for multi-home…

>> Greg> $ host -v -A mx1.supernews.net
>>
>>I do not know what utility you have on your system under the name
>>"host". On my systems I have the host(1) program from one or other
>>version of BIND, which does not match your usage.
>>
>>
>
>Then obviously you have a very out-of-date version of 'host'. Please
>upgrade.
>
>

At the point of flogging this horse silly, my host binary doesn't
support '-A' either

I'm running bind 9.2.1, however I also downloaded the source to 9.2.2,
the most recent version of bind recommended by ISC to run, and its host
binary makes no mention at all of a -A parameter.

I just feel that if you take a forcefully oppositional viewpoint you
should at least post things that make sense.


Did you mean "host -v -t A" ? Or are you running a version of host
provided -- and patched -- by a vendor, such as RedHat, who often make
changes like this to their packages (tcpdump, ls, etc)