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Re:Safe ways to do things in bash by ddtaylor on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:58PM (#17071304)
I have made a lot of DNS products and doing the same thing happening here is a few lines of code in most any language. This code, while entertaining, cannot handle very simple DNS packets because of its "compression encoding.
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Re:Safe ways to do things in bash by kiallmacinnes on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @12:27AM (#17071645)
This is ran behind PowerDNS, which handles the compression prior to handing off to this code, so that shouldn't be a problem.
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Re:Safe ways to do things in bash by brazzledazzle on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @04:51AM (#17072563)
Which means it’s not really doing any of the heavy lifting.
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Re:Safe ways to do things in bash by xyproto on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @06:51AM (#17073019)
Which is also the case for most bash scripts, the heaving lifting is done by all the executables that are called from bash, not in native bash.
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