From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 4 15:42:56 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0E3655D for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2015 15:42:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.xtaz.uk (tao.xtaz.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:202::10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B1773799 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2015 15:42:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.xtaz.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 559A2209AF1D; Sat, 4 Apr 2015 16:42:52 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 16:42:52 +0100 From: Matt Smith To: Ernie Luzar Subject: Re: dig command ? Message-ID: <20150404154252.GA9569@xtaz.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matt Smith , Ernie Luzar , FreeBSD Questions References: <552001C0.6040304@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <552001C0.6040304@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 15:42:57 -0000 On Apr 04 11:22, Ernie Luzar wrote: >running 10.1 and went to use the dig command and its no longer part of >the system. Why was it removed? Dig is part of bind which was removed and replaced with unbound. There is an alternative which is similar called drill that you can use or to get dig back install the dns/bind-tools port. -- Matt