Rus Foster wrote: > > Its in the "host" package > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search nslookup > host - Utility for Querying DNS Servers
Actually, you probably want bind9-host instead of host. Host is a
replacement for nslookup. But because of an unfortunate collisions of
names will suffer a troubled future on Debian. The host package
really should be called the nikhef-host package, or some such.
I recommend bind9-host for both compatibility with other systems
shipping bind code and for the general freature set provided. (Read,
parsing the output in scripts.)
apt-cache show host
'host' is a utility, similar to 'nslookup' (deprecated) or 'dig',
used to query DNS servers for domain names and zones.
This package provides the original version of 'host', originally
in the package 'dnsutils'. BIND9 provides a similar utility,
in 'bind9-host'.
apt-cache show bind9-host
This package provides the 'host' program in the form that is bundled with
the BIND 9.X sources. This version differs from the one provided in the
package called host, which is from NIKHEF, and has a similar but different
set of features/options.
Bob
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