On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:07:34 Ionut Biru wrote:
On 03/20/2013 11:05 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 20.03.2013 04:50, schrieb Gaetan Bisson:
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`.
Wait, I think I misunderstood your original email. I was under the impression that ldns provides drop-in replacements for the commands.
This is not the case and thus I will have no 'host' command anymore. Not that I particularly rely on dnsutils, but I imagine *everyone* expects the 'host' command to exist.
host and dig are tools that I use every day and they are the standard.
i don't see why they should be dropped just because bind (as in the server) doesn't suite you well now.
why cannot we keep the tools?
I'd +1 for keeping dnsutils 9 as is in the repos for now, if my vote counts :P Felix Yan Twitter: @felixonmars Wiki: http://felixc.at