[arch-dev-public] BIND10? No, thanks.

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Wed Mar 20 05:05:17 EDT 2013


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.


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