Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:28:25 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happened to nslookup? Message-ID: <20131012022825.GJ1611@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <54.9B.16944.480B8525@cdptpa-oedge02> References: <0E.82.01315.25778525@cdptpa-oedge03> <20131011221302.GH1611@albert.catwhisker.org> <54.9B.16944.480B8525@cdptpa-oedge02>
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:14:28AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> ...
> Thanks for info!
Glad to help.
> I saw that bind was removed from the current branch because of security problems,
It was removed, but I believe that there was a bit more to it than
"security problems."
> but didn't know nslookup was part of BIND.
>
> Now I see in $PORTSDIR/dns/bind-tools/pkg-plist
>
> bin/dig
> bin/host
> bin/nslookup
>
> so host is also part of BIND?
:-} The version of host we had when BIND was part of base was part of
BIND, yes. Looking in src/usr.bin/host/Makefile, I see:
# $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/host/Makefile 255949 2013-09-30 17:23:45Z des $
LDNSDIR= ${.CURDIR}/../../contrib/ldns
LDNSHOSTDIR= ${.CURDIR}/../../contrib/ldns-host
...
which indicates that this is a re-implementation of "host" as
provided by contrib/ldns.
> I will remember to use "host" in the future.
I have found it generally easy to use (easier by far than nslookup).
Peace,
david
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