Control: tag -1 + wontfix [Replying to a bug report which is more than 10 years old..]
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:13:06 +0200 martin f krafft <[email protected]> wrote: ..
> if the use case is 'lookup a DNS record and print it like > bind9-host does' then bind9-host and unbound-host fit that > description. Right. And it also supports all of the features of host and bind9-host, I think, so once you have unbound-host installed, the others aren't really necessary anymore, are they?
10+ years has passed but unbound-host does not provide the same or even similar functionality as bind9-host. Yes it prints DNS records, but the interface and the defaults are quite a bit different, to a point when you can't substitute one for the other. So marking as wontfix for now. We can probably make it a low-priority alternative for "host" if we had such alternative, - but we don't, iirc. There are other tools of this theme too, eg my dnsget (udns-utils package). /mjt
