May you please add alias for nslookup?

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Sat Oct 12 16:35:12 UTC 2013


RW wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:44:56 +0200
> Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
> > explaning the user what has happened and optionally invoking "host"
> > or "dig".
> 
> Actually dig has gone 

Rather cryptic for me so I looked:

dig has gone from current src/usr.bin/dig 
nslookup & dig & host 
are all installed by either of current
ports/dns/bind99 or ports/dns/bind-tools 


> and has been replaced by the unbound utility
> drill. 

src/usr.bin/drill/


I agree with O.P. Zhifeng Hu's "this is a very basic tools".

Removing src/contrib/bind9 from FreeBSD-10 will get criticised as:
 "Calls itself a server OS, but no name server out of the box!"

Please resist periodic urges to strip src/ towards just a tool set
capable of rebuilding itself.  Tossing expected tools (even if a
port is more up to date & secure) will annoy users, & potential
immigrants from other Unixes may try then toss FreeBSD.

Cheers,
Julian
-- 
Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com
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