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Date:      Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:21:53 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Avleen Vig <avleen@gmail.com>
Cc:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Replacing BIND with unbound
Message-ID:  <86eholnsji.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <CAMjP1KmVDJuKw09UFXb2M6QaL1dD1ocSjMOZLtjKiYFYoF9f4Q@mail.gmail.com> (Avleen Vig's message of "Sun, 8 Jul 2012 22:43:20 -0700")
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Avleen Vig <avleen@gmail.com> writes:
> It would be silly not to keep bind-tools in base. `host` and `dig` are
> very standard tools most people expect to be available in base, just
> as they are in the base/core/whatever of other operating systems.

We should definitely have an implementation of host(1), but dig(1) is
not nearly as widely used, and ldns's drill(1) supports the same
command-line syntax for the most common operations.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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