On 03/20/2013 11:05 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 20.03.2013 04:50, schrieb Gaetan Bisson: >> Consequently, official packages using >> [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) >> were migrated to >> [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/), >> a much nicer library which provides a `drill` command >> that replaces `dig`, `nslookup`, and `host`. > > Wait, I think I misunderstood your original email. I was under the > impression that ldns provides drop-in replacements for the commands. > > This is not the case and thus I will have no 'host' command anymore. Not > that I particularly rely on dnsutils, but I imagine *everyone* expects > the 'host' command to exist. > >
host and dig are tools that I use every day and they are the standard. i don't see why they should be dropped just because bind (as in the server) doesn't suite you well now. why cannot we keep the tools? -- Ionuț
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