When I was interviewed for my first position as a network support engineer (front line) for Sun Services I was asked "What tools would you use to diagnose DNS issues?" To which of course I answered "dig, the Domain Information Groper". The guy looked at me blankly (I know his name) and said "No... what else? to LOOKUP"? To me there really wasn't anything else, or did he mean host(1)... I can honestly say I'd never heard of nslookup(1) but then he'd never heard of dig. But I knew I was right in my answer. I was astonished to find that Solaris didn't provide dig(1) out-of-the box then. I am happy to report that its available on all supported releases today.
What brought this memory to mind is the feeling that I got in my stomach then occurred again when I read the statement; "Once installed, T-patches do not show their "T" prefix in the output of showrev -p ... They never did". I'm certain circa 1998 'showrev -p' did just that. I even managed to find a single link which backed me up, http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/sun-info/sun-patches/106699.readme, also available from SunSolve. So what's the consensus here? Am I right or am I right?
