Mark Blackman <m...@exonetric.com> writes: > drill certainly looks like a drop-in replacement for the common case > as you suggest. But if it's not called 'dig' and I've never heard of > 'drill', I'm unlikely to reach for 'drill', hence the alias > suggestion. I *had* never heard of 'drill' until this thread came up.
They are sufficiently similar that writing a wrapper that supports a significant subset of dig's command-line option and uses drill as a backend shouldn't take more than an afternoon for a reasonably experienced programmer. I'm not entirely convinced that it is really required, but considering how easy it would be to implement, there's no reason not to. A drop-in replacement for host is, of course, an absolute requirement. As for nslookup... it's been deprecated for a decade. Its only saving grace is that its interactive mode is useful for playing text adventures implemented with DNS TXT records :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
