dig command ?

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Mon Apr 27 21:19:05 UTC 2015


On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:13:43 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
> On 04/04/2015 16:22, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> > running 10.1 and went to use the dig command and its no longer part of 
> > the system. Why was it removed?
> [...] 
> If you want 
> nslookup or dig you DON'T have to install the whole BIND package as is 
> often suggested; just find nslookup.c (it's in the same directory as 
> host and dig on the ISC source bundle) and compile and copy in to /usr/bin.

You'll also find nslookup and dig in the port dns/bind-tools,
this way you can keep it managed by pkg or your ports management
tool of choice. :-)


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