On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Thomas Bächler <tho...@archlinux.org> wrote: > Am 20.03.2013 10:32, schrieb Gaetan Bisson: >> [2013-03-20 10:25:33 +0100] Thomas Bächler: >>> So, drill will give me a page full of useless text instead of simply >>> giving an IP, like host does. I always found dig's output to be way more >>> than I ever wanted, unless in very special situations. >> >> Alright; you can: >> - write a three-line drill wrapper to recreate the output of host; >> - adopt dnsutils and have fun with BIND. > > The first option makes more sense.
host, nslookup, traceroute6- the list of extremely basic sysadmin tools Arch doesn't ship in an easily installable fashion is starting to get rather long. Does util-linux or such provide implementations of the first two that until now we have been disabling? -Dan
