I think it is hard to learn... using the tools people used to learn DNS with.
BIND is great at what it does, but its configuration files suck and its manual is long, terse, and unnecessarily complex sometimes. Dig is powerful, but abbreviates everything like we're on an 80 column terminal. At times Wireshark was a better tool debugging DNS issues than Dig was.
Give someone PowerDNS or another modern DNS server and I think they'll have a much better time configuring a working DNS server. I don't know a good modern DNS client, so I've learned to deal with Dig instead. As a user of the "--color" flag for the `ip` command, I'd love to see tools like dig produce more modern output (I'll alias the command line flags, just add it to the command!)
Seriously, "MSG SIZE rcvd: 71" did not need abbreviation. "flags: qr rd ra" could've been full words as well. I don't know what the semicolons before the lines are supposed to convey but they're only making things confusing.
I find it no wonder people get confused learning DNS with the materials provided to them.
BIND is great at what it does, but its configuration files suck and its manual is long, terse, and unnecessarily complex sometimes. Dig is powerful, but abbreviates everything like we're on an 80 column terminal. At times Wireshark was a better tool debugging DNS issues than Dig was.
Give someone PowerDNS or another modern DNS server and I think they'll have a much better time configuring a working DNS server. I don't know a good modern DNS client, so I've learned to deal with Dig instead. As a user of the "--color" flag for the `ip` command, I'd love to see tools like dig produce more modern output (I'll alias the command line flags, just add it to the command!)
Seriously, "MSG SIZE rcvd: 71" did not need abbreviation. "flags: qr rd ra" could've been full words as well. I don't know what the semicolons before the lines are supposed to convey but they're only making things confusing.
I find it no wonder people get confused learning DNS with the materials provided to them.