From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 12 17:41:04 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BF4F24 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:41:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 061A028A9 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16AB213E2 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:40:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:40:56 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to:references :subject:date; s=smtpout; bh=uobnQf4CvtRT+Ssfz1WPTAN5AYk=; b=Seu hbWOvhh9UIEePErfSmmRgdOhxfQT/oqgDLp5qbxEq0qjfQKw3OBxO5sF/sKwxwvD QiLr9+9BimNeRbBuVZQoTSZHNqRTQ2jN+eMz01upffAeMT5kc29Rb3vdpP6IK9MM SbRTV1aAafteucMweE4VWX4lGCplzYSWFdbpjYFQ= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id AA62911FC04; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:40:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1381599656.13750.33215025.2D6F9352@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: Zm176oTvuM5/ViRq10q4rX/V6hRNcN7EtNvspISuZnBO 1381599656 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-ce174988 In-Reply-To: <201310121634.r9CGYQRD053340@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201310121634.r9CGYQRD053340@fire.js.berklix.net> Subject: Re: May you please add alias for nslookup? Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:40:56 -0500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:41:04 -0000 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 > Interleave replies below like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". > Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or > multipart/alternative. > 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/