On Friday 01 February 2002 04:05 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:08:50 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 01 February 2002 08:48 am, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > [snip] > > > > I can't find "dig" with apt-cache search. I do find something called > > > "htdig". Is this basically the same thing? > > > > no, not at all the same thing. you'll find dig in dnsutils. > > When I try to "# apt-get install dnsutils", it says that it also > wants to install bind9-host, libdns5, libisc4, liblwres1. > > Do I really readlly need most of bind9 just to do ns lookups?
apparently dig checks its query options against what is supported by bind9. i guess that's the reason it's there.
