Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:56:23 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dig command ? Message-ID: <553F6757.50801@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <553F6219.40701@qeng-ho.org> References: <552001C0.6040304@gmail.com> <553EA687.2040602@fjl.co.uk> <553F6219.40701@qeng-ho.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 04/28/15 11:34, Arthur Chance wrote: > It didn't. What we've got now is a clone of host supplied by the unbound > software. > > No, I've no idea why they didn't clone nslookup and dig as well. :-( Because cloning host(1) is easy. Cloning nslookup(1) -- replicating its peculiar behaviour with the reasonably sane tools bundled with unbound(8) -- is hard, and not worth it for a program that is in any case deprecated. Cloning dig(1) is not so hard, so long as you stick to basic operations. In fact, there is a dig-alike that comes with unbound: drill(1). However, when you get down to the niggling details, dig and drill behave significantly differently. In some limited areas, drill is superior, but generally dig allows exceedingly fine-grained control over generating DNS queries and displaying the results. Basically, if drill(1) doesn't cut it for you and you want dig(1) specifically, then install bind-tools. Cheers, Matthew [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJVP2dXXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQxOUYxNTRFQ0JGMTEyRTUwNTQ0RTNGMzAw MDUxM0YxMEUwQTlFNEU3AAoJEABRPxDgqeTnuFcP/Aw29jY+jZZNe0G2bQQ0RZ9o fSr6gJXW64O9ev0Bqq7rusG8XEjz7n9TANwyL20LvTBjCCgBdgQEt/l4T5/QzOKn mYyFc3GgtMoyJA9U+Lz+SSb5dp/trDp6MzmaEuh5UhFaTmkhx6BZvm0LBh5ymQ0/ IudzqJFNS9OMBRQapXEXnpkq5K/0CdKPuykb3fwgGmzb5zkrrk4f3cdaUiRsqxSb 2tAyDERXc+RqYTUWH6obZEQko6CwUdspZ+w0wHhL3uoPf4w+llh1Yp0X0dmWTIEj VV4yYFL9CukqjToutH1wZ4CocvZHlg09TOtq5ZnseqZwSOBQUXoiKScV6V+1rhh3 GBflP2oXOvl5cYkM2frDWCid66LCgm/nXDVApgfQ+9bVDEReZwhajvbLSpiQSmzN kWy+gZmrIBb1CL/qSuprSN3B9MD+SjpYaUpiOstQ/OVm0xFtplK51JQMtPUfKwuS SjZNUSRQoiFeYXEk4yM6pRrEirQzqI7UwYtUQJ+WktpiXneZ4S4DRkVaRl4oaoS8 kw6QfPTlX3lj0z/+KNrrHYx4yCHmF8/9+XIAWXpd1fNCsySv9YbBUC5m5ShvigWa atzTHwLFiDTR0CD8s/Dy7VjoLhOciKOawNrOOjCCFGtlK1p5qJcykCkjki26dEaH GAwmvZcIFCb3o5cds7Ek =OMPh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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