Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:10:01 -0700 (PDT) From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5854 Message-ID: <199808071610.JAA10780@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/5854; it has been noted by GNATS. From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: justin@ad-v.com Subject: Re: bin/5854 Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:05:55 -0400 (EDT) [ On Tue, August 4, 1998 at 03:06:57 (-0700), Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: ] > Subject: Re: bin/5854 > > Synopsis: host -l MX or NS core dumps > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: phk > State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 4 03:05:39 PDT 1998 > State-Changed-Why: > As part of our PR auditing campaign, this PR has been closed due to its > age and lack of activity on the PR. > > The host program is part of the BIND software, and is maintained by > Paul Vixie et al. I belive they consider the "host" program obsolete > and advise people to use "dig" instead. That's because host(1) is no longer part of the BIND package. The version included there is *ancient*. The currently maintained version of host(1) is infinitely more useful then dig(1) (the latter also requires perl too). The correct URL for fetching the most recent release of host(1) is: ftp://ftp.nikhef.nl/pub/network/host.tar.Z Contact e07@nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar) for further information on this and other very useful network utilities (ping, traceroute, vrfy, etc.) -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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