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

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Wed Mar 20 10:03:49 EDT 2013


Am 20.03.2013 14:42, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> util-linux does not. coreutils and iputils provide 'host', but both
> are incompatible with the legacy one (and, iirc, each other).
> 
> -t

They are certainly better than using either 'drill' or 'getent
hosts/ahosts', all of which either return too much (drill and getent
ahosts) or too few (getent hosts) information.


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