On 10/12/13 10:28 AM, David Wolfskill wrote:
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:14:28AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
...
Thanks for info!
Glad to help.
I saw that bind was removed from the current branch because of security
problems,
It was removed, but I believe that there was a bit more to it than
"security problems."
I think it was just a personal preference that managed to get communicated
as "important", and no-one had the energy or will to argue about it.
(that's the way software projects often work.. loudest and most
persistent voice wins).
but didn't know nslookup was part of BIND.
Now I see in $PORTSDIR/dns/bind-tools/pkg-plist
bin/dig
bin/host
bin/nslookup
so host is also part of BIND?
:-} The version of host we had when BIND was part of base was part of
BIND, yes. Looking in src/usr.bin/host/Makefile, I see:
# $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/host/Makefile 255949 2013-09-30 17:23:45Z des $
LDNSDIR= ${.CURDIR}/../../contrib/ldns
LDNSHOSTDIR= ${.CURDIR}/../../contrib/ldns-host
...
which indicates that this is a re-implementation of "host" as
provided by contrib/ldns.
I will remember to use "host" in the future.
I have found it generally easy to use (easier by far than nslookup).
Peace,
david
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