Bug#508053: please provide 'host'
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 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
Bug#508053: please provide 'host'
also sprach Robert Edmonds [2009.07.21.1850 +0200]: > if the use case is 'query a recursive DNS server for a record' > then bind9-host and dnsqr from the djbdns package fit that > description. And unbound-host -r. > 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? -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" -- isaac asimov digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/)
Bug#508053: please provide 'host'
martin f krafft wrote: > I completely agree, unbound-host should replace/conflict host (which > is being removed) and bind9-host, or there should be an alternatives > entry coordinated between the various maintainers. unbound-host isn't an alternative or replacement for bind9-host, IMO. one is a command line interface to a recursive DNS lookup library and one is a command line interface to an iterative DNS lookup library. i use both of them for different purposes, so i don't think unbound packages will ever conflict with bind9 packages. what exactly would be the use case for an alternatives entry for 'host'? if the use case is 'query a recursive DNS server for a record' then bind9-host and dnsqr from the djbdns package fit that description. 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. and 'reimplementation' probably isn't the right word to use in the package description. -- Robert Edmonds edmo...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#508053: please provide 'host'
I completely agree, unbound-host should replace/conflict host (which is being removed) and bind9-host, or there should be an alternatives entry coordinated between the various maintainers. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/)
