Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:10:18 -0700 From: Avleen Vig <avleen@gmail.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Replacing BIND with unbound Message-ID: <CAMjP1Kncj58=ew74it%2B_eAHayb38pm=0U8CSt8SvTYQrfBg7Cg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120710025619.GB90875@server.rulingia.com> References: <4FFA7980.4000707@FreeBSD.org> <CAMjP1K=b8mwqe31m=OqjUV%2BF=B85L4vpfT%2BDj00a1voPB-8TwA@mail.gmail.com> <D49E4B08-AC64-48C0-B918-94A7E30AB981@exonetric.com> <4FFB46A4.5050504@FreeBSD.org> <1E29121E-62B1-4929-BB7B-4FCA5D893F51@exonetric.com> <86a9z8mxa1.fsf@ds4.des.no> <8D942592-3662-4FBA-BA61-2A010452BF70@exonetric.com> <863950mw53.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86885338-37D1-47FE-8DC6-45E9B4B806D7@exonetric.com> <86y5mslfso.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20120710025619.GB90875@server.rulingia.com>
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On Jul 9, 2012 7:57 PM, "Peter Jeremy" <peter@rulingia.com> wrote: > > On 2012-Jul-10 00:40:07 +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > >They are sufficiently similar that writing a wrapper that supports a > >significant subset of dig's command-line option and uses drill as a > >backend shouldn't take more than an afternoon for a reasonably > >experienced programmer. > > I would further suggest that where a dig(1) option isn't emulated, the > fallback error message should refer the user to drill(1). > > >As for nslookup... it's been deprecated for a decade. > > But old fogies might still use it. Can I suggest that something along > the lines of the the following be installed as /usr/bin/nslookup: > > #!/bin/sh > echo "nslookup is no longer supported. Please see drill(1) or host(1)" >&2 > exit 1 This is a much better solution for users.
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