Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:34:01 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dig command ? Message-ID: <553F6219.40701@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <553EA687.2040602@fjl.co.uk> References: <552001C0.6040304@gmail.com> <553EA687.2040602@fjl.co.uk>
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On 27/04/2015 22:13, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > On 04/04/2015 16:22, Ernie Luzar wrote: >> running 10.1 and went to use the dig command and its no longer part of >> the system. Why was it removed? > > As other's have said, this was removed (actually in 10.0) because it was > compiled as part of BIND, and that was removed. You'll find nslookup has > also gone, but host (which also part of BIND) is still there. > > BIND was considered over-kill as part of the base system, but it's still > available in ports. This doesn't explain how the "host" utility escaped > remained part of the base system, It didn't. What we've got now is a clone of host supplied by the unbound software. No, I've no idea why they didn't clone nslookup and dig as well. :-( -- Those who do not learn from computing history are doomed to GOTO 1
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