On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:34:46AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > 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
glibc ships getent, which can be used to do DNS lookups (getent hosts www.google.com). That said, I don't expect people to know this offhand as an alternative to dig. I'm kind of wary of not shipping *basic* DNS tools which people expect to exist. drill is not a drop-in replacement for dig given that it ignores the +option flags. And no, I don't buy this "I disagree with upstream so I'm not shipping it" as an excuse to not only avoid BIND10, but drop BIND entirely.
