On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: >On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:08:50 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Friday 01 February 2002 08:48 am, Xeno Campanoli wrote: >[snip] >> > >> > I can't find "dig" with apt-cache search. I do find something called >> > "htdig". Is this basically the same thing? >> >> no, not at all the same thing. you'll find dig in dnsutils. > >When I try to "# apt-get install dnsutils", it says that it also >wants to install bind9-host, libdns5, libisc4, liblwres1.
I think bind9-host is a meta-package for host, which contains the host program, which is similar to dig. The rest are just libraries that they require. >Do I really readlly need most of bind9 just to do ns lookups? Its not most, its just a wee bit. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/
