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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:16:23 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Replacing BIND with unbound
Message-ID:  <4FFBD6C7.2080008@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120710025619.GB90875@server.rulingia.com>
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On 07/09/2012 19:56, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2012-Jul-10 00:40:07 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>
> wrote:
>> They are sufficiently similar that writing a wrapper that
>> supports a significant subset of dig's command-line option and
>> uses drill as a backend shouldn't take more than an afternoon for
>> a reasonably experienced programmer.
> 
> I would further suggest that where a dig(1) option isn't emulated,
> the fallback error message should refer the user to drill(1).

IMO we don't need a wrapper for drill. For most people, just
substituting 'drill' for 'dig' is enough. For more complex stuff
people really need to learn the new tool, or install bind-tools.

>> As for nslookup...  it's been deprecated for a decade.
> 
> But old fogies might still use it.  Can I suggest that something
> along the lines of the the following be installed as
> /usr/bin/nslookup:
> 
> #!/bin/sh echo "nslookup is no longer supported.  Please see
> drill(1) or host(1)" >&2 exit 1

You have no idea how long I've wanted to do that. :)

- -- 

    Change is hard.



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