On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 19:21:16 Allan McRae wrote:
On 20/03/13 19:07, 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.
Can't we symlink drill -> dig etc?
Not really, it behaves not the same when you want +trace +short, etc. (I used $(dig +short ...) a lot in my own scripts) Felix Yan Twitter: @felixonmars Wiki: http://felixc.at