-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 07/09/2012 19:56, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2012-Jul-10 00:40:07 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> > wrote: >> They are sufficiently similar that writing a wrapper that >> supports a significant subset of dig's command-line option and >> uses drill as a backend shouldn't take more than an afternoon for >> a reasonably experienced programmer. > > I would further suggest that where a dig(1) option isn't emulated, > the fallback error message should refer the user to drill(1).
IMO we don't need a wrapper for drill. For most people, just substituting 'drill' for 'dig' is enough. For more complex stuff people really need to learn the new tool, or install bind-tools. >> As for nslookup... it's been deprecated for a decade. > > But old fogies might still use it. Can I suggest that something > along the lines of the the following be installed as > /usr/bin/nslookup: > > #!/bin/sh echo "nslookup is no longer supported. Please see > drill(1) or host(1)" >&2 exit 1 You have no idea how long I've wanted to do that. :) - -- Change is hard. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJP+9bHAAoJEFzGhvEaGryEd9YIAL/A71XjQUC2aXZV36m4nFJ6 sGqfpeVcP/AjaF67wld1WukcrKxqqjmIQATlUna3m6L5t0exNGy4y3Udqmr5eOeo U6p/qYyJ2xkaPz+GnmcO6ygi4uWa0CwzbH5/jfprRSrCQuk7PZzRC0FvNsqqQcyc PtwEBmxTHzURSE6CaB19EuYKYQe+hLecSZlwVlipG4IaEmqmczpdjHnE1EHWiGCU 2uIEkJRradqXknAUTxfomAfM8ARiK2AQGT3TKRJuG8ApcF2CpoJkCaFKn73yxvn8 DQ3ENpSKkkRn8n7t/a9rOUQ0gbl9GP3dXpX/1Kw0dlq21LsGn5aOIy+yvOUw3bw= =Yrv4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"