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Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>,
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Subject: Re: Replacing BIND with unbound
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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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