svn commit: r258714 - head

Craig Rodrigues rodrigc at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 28 19:13:06 UTC 2013


Author: rodrigc
Date: Thu Nov 28 19:13:05 2013
New Revision: 258714
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258714

Log:
  Add some text to clarify that nslookup and dig are no longer in the base system
  after the removal of BIND.

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Thu Nov 28 18:56:34 2013	(r258713)
+++ head/UPDATING	Thu Nov 28 19:13:05 2013	(r258714)
@@ -76,7 +76,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 11
 	BIND has been removed from the base system.  If all you need
 	is a local resolver, simply enable and start the local_unbound
 	service instead.  Otherwise, several versions of BIND are
-	available in the ports tree.
+	available in the ports tree.   The dns/bind99 port is one example.
+
+	With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base
+	system.  Users should instead use host(1) which is still
+	in the base system.  Alternatively, nslookup and dig can
+	be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port.
 
 20130916:
 	With the addition of unbound(8), a new unbound user is now


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