May you please add alias for nslookup?
Mark Felder
feld at FreeBSD.org
Sat Oct 12 17:41:04 UTC 2013
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013, at 11:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> 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 and has been replaced by the unbound utility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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I don't think anyone can explain this better than the last post DES put
on his blog about it
http://blog.des.no/2013/09/dns-again-a-clarification/
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