Re: [Bug-wget] Feature Request or How To Request

[Micah Cowan]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Everybody.
> 
> I would like to use wget in the following way:
> 
> wget --spider http://www.mydomain.com:9080/ --no-dns-cache
> --dns-server-one=99.88.77.66
> wget --spider http://www.mydomain.com:9080/ --no-dns-cache
> --dns-server-one=99.88.77.66 --dns-server-two=99.88.77.55
> 
> So that wget can resolve the domain name and cname / address from
> another DNS server, just in case the local server WGET is running on
> has mirrored or backup or alternative DNS records, that also might
> contain the www.mydomain.com, but given the actual TEST case the
> www.mydomain.com is not the actual intended test server.  The remote DNS
> server will have the appropriate www / address / cname record.

If you have root access, you can of course just modify /etc/resolv.conf.

Wget doesn't do anything fancy, just uses the system library name-lookup
routines.

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Micah J. Cowan
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Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
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