Re: NLNet Labs Ending Dev of drill(1)

From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy_at_mips.inka.de>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:58:26 UTC
Pete Wright:

> I just came across this blog post which seems to indicate that the drill(1)
> utility from NLNet is ending development in favor of a rust based tool:
> 
> I was curious if a) anyone was aware of this and b) will we maintain a
> version of drill(1) in base or revert to including dns/bind-tools in base?

FWIW, OpenBSD has a version of dig(1) in base, with just the parts
extracted from BIND that are needed.

openbsd$ /usr/bin/dig -v
dig 9.10.8-P1

Then again, just keeping the existing version of drill(1) around
would amount to the same, I guess.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de