Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:42:39 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r258714 - head Message-ID: <CAGE5yCrivRiO8v1aLZU3bfcM_fR0hE8aV4D7Og0bwB5U7jz4Ng@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201311281913.rASJD6vC066492@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201311281913.rASJD6vC066492@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org> wrote: > Author: rodrigc > Date: Thu Nov 28 19:13:05 2013 > New Revision: 258714 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258714 > > Log: > Add some text to clarify that nslookup and dig are no longer in the base system > after the removal of BIND. .. > - available in the ports tree. > + available in the ports tree. The dns/bind99 port is one example. > + > + With this change, nslookup(1) and dig(1) are no longer in the base > + system. Users should instead use host(1) which is still > + in the base system. Alternatively, nslookup and dig can > + be obtained by installing the dns/bind-tools port. It might also be worth pointing to drill(1). It can be used as a partial alternative for dig in some common use cases. It does different things but it does understand some common dig syntax. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV UTF-8: for when a ' just won\342\200\231t do. <brueffer> ZFS must be the bacon of file systems. "everything's better with ZFS"
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