Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Kevin Darcy wrote: > > >> I was going to mention the "journalprint" utility, but it appears it's >> been removed :-( Last sighting was 9.3.2 in the bin/tests directory. >> Anyone know what happened to it? Was it not considered useful enough to >> maintain? >> > > I still see it. > > bind-v9_2/bind9/bin/tests/journalprint.c > bind-v9_3/bind9/bin/tests/journalprint.c > bind-v9_4/bind9/bin/tests/journalprint.c > bind-v9_5/bind9/bin/tests/journalprint.c > bind-HEAD/bind9/bin/tests/journalprint.c > > Do you mean it was removed from some package? > > Never mind. Was looking for journalprint not journalprint.c, and I haven't compiled all of the various versions of BIND on that particular box.
In any case, journalprint is a handy utility for anyone wanting to learn about how the journalling function works in BIND. We include it in our "essential" DNS troubleshooting utilities that we install on all Unix/Linux boxes, along with dig and a few others. I personally think it should be moved to a "regular" spot in the distribution -- being under "test" seems to imply that its status is rather, er, tenuous. - Kevin