On Sat, 23 Dec 1995, Robert Leslie wrote: > I haven't yet made any changes to let BIND do cacheing nameservice by > default. I'd also like to think about making libresolv into a shared library, > and possibly splitting up the package into several smaller packages: bind > (nameservice daemon, sample zone files, /etc/named.boot, /etc/init.d/bind, > misc docs), resolv (runtime resolver shared library, /etc/resolv.conf), > resolv-dev (resolver include files and .so link, docs), & dns-utils (nslookup, > dig, etc.)
I'm going to put my foot dangerously close to my mouth here, as I'm away from my debian system, but... I think that nslookup will work on a system with only /etc/hostname lookup, right? If so, I think that the DNS utils should probably get folded in with the runtime package that has the resolver library and /etc/resolv.conf. Otherwise, it's a great idea, and the implementation details are of secondary concern ;) Carl Streeter | "I'll forgive even GNU emacs as long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | as gcc is available" --Linus Torvalds Just another Perl hacker | "You've got a body in the garage, minus Ask me about Debian/GNU Linux. | a head. Take me to it." --The Wolf