Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:16:23 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Replacing BIND with unbound Message-ID: <4FFBD6C7.2080008@FreeBSD.org> 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 07/09/2012 19:56, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2012-Jul-10 00:40:07 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <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).
IMO we don't need a wrapper for drill. For most people, just
substituting 'drill' for 'dig' is enough. For more complex stuff
people really need to learn the new tool, or install bind-tools.
>> 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
You have no idea how long I've wanted to do that. :)
- --
Change is hard.
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