On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Dave Reisner <d...@falconindy.com> wrote: > 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.
If there are tools that do the same job, albeit in a different way or with a different syntax, I don't see the big problem here... > 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. Would be simple enough to adopt the BIND package... -t
