What happened to nslookup?

[David Wolfskill]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:14:28AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> ...
> Thanks for info!

Glad to help.

> I saw that bind was removed from the current branch because of security problems,

It was removed, but I believe that there was a bit more to it than
"security problems."

> but didn't know nslookup was part of BIND.
> 
> Now I see in $PORTSDIR/dns/bind-tools/pkg-plist
> 
> bin/dig
> bin/host
> bin/nslookup
> 
> so host is also part of BIND?

:-}  The version of host we had when BIND was part of base was part of
BIND, yes.  Looking in src/usr.bin/host/Makefile, I see:

# $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/host/Makefile 255949 2013-09-30 17:23:45Z des $

LDNSDIR=        ${.CURDIR}/../../contrib/ldns
LDNSHOSTDIR=    ${.CURDIR}/../../contrib/ldns-host
...

which indicates that this is a re-implementation of "host" as
provided by contrib/ldns.

> I will remember to use "host" in the future.

I have found it generally easy to use (easier by far than nslookup).

Peace,
david
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