On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:34:46AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 20.03.2013 10:32, schrieb Gaetan Bisson:
[2013-03-20 10:25:33 +0100] Thomas Bächler:
So, drill will give me a page full of useless text instead of simply giving an IP, like host does. I always found dig's output to be way more than I ever wanted, unless in very special situations.
Alright; you can: - write a three-line drill wrapper to recreate the output of host; - adopt dnsutils and have fun with BIND.
The first option makes more sense.
host, nslookup, traceroute6- the list of extremely basic sysadmin tools Arch doesn't ship in an easily installable fashion is starting to get rather long. Does util-linux or such provide implementations of the first two that until now we have been disabling?
-Dan
glibc ships getent, which can be used to do DNS lookups (getent hosts www.google.com). That said, I don't expect people to know this offhand as an alternative to dig. I'm kind of wary of not shipping *basic* DNS tools which people expect to exist. drill is not a drop-in replacement for dig given that it ignores the +option flags. And no, I don't buy this "I disagree with upstream so I'm not shipping it" as an excuse to not only avoid BIND10, but drop BIND entirely.