[2013-03-09 13:27:42 +1100] Gaetan Bisson:
- We ditch dnsutils and bind out of our repos, unless somebody finds them fun and wants to maintain them in [extra] or [community].
I would like to post the following announcement. Comments are welcome. Deprecation of bind and dnsutils The direction BIND has taken with its recent BIND10 release [makes it impossible](https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024588.ht...) for us to keep relying on it. Consequently, official packages using [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) were migrated to [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/), a much nicer library which provides a `drill` command that replaces `dig`, `nslookup`, and `host`. We strongly suggest you migrate your own software to [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/) too, and replace [bind](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bind/); with ldns-based alternatives: - the [unbound](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/unbound/) resolving server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unbound)); - the [nsd](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nsd/) authoritative server (see [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nsd)). The deprecated packages [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) and [bind](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bind/) will soon be dropped to the AUR. -- Gaetan