Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:40:56 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: May you please add alias for nslookup? Message-ID: <1381599656.13750.33215025.2D6F9352@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <201310121634.r9CGYQRD053340@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201310121634.r9CGYQRD053340@fire.js.berklix.net>
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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 and has been replaced by the unbound utility 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/
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