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Re:Why is DNS still hard to learn? by jeroenhd on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:56PM (#36911518)
Now I just wonder what the double semicolons mean and why they're different from single semicolons :) It's fine, I can Google the answer, I just wished I didn't need to.

I already know to use +short when I just want the result(s). I use it in a script to detect and resolve my Pihole's random freezes (by timing the lookup and rebooting the VM every time a lookup fails or takes longer than 200ms, janky but it works).

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Re:Why is DNS still hard to learn? by dclowd9901 on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:14PM (#36911804)
Perhaps there is info that would normally be present and isn’t, hence stacked semicolons.
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Re:Why is DNS still hard to learn? by skrebbel on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:50PM (#36912326)
A precision engineering tool shouldn’t make its users guess like that.
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Re:Why is DNS still hard to learn? by dclowd9901 on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:20PM (#36915279)
Totally agree.
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