On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 17:51:52 +0100 , Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > also be to enable drill so that we have a command-line dns lookup tool > > in the base, but that's trivial once you've got ldns imported. > > Does that means loosing host(1) ? That would be somewhat annoying.
You seem to have missed another message Doug posted to this thread (message-id <4ff36174.2000...@freebsd.org>, dated Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:17:40 -0700) wherein he wrote: > Whether we do the above or not, ldns/drill should be imported into the > base so that we have at least one command line DNS resolution tool. A > good "junior hacker" project would be to make a host(1) clone using > ldns. If users want the regular bind tools, ports/dns/bind-tools > already exists. I was curious and started poking at ldns to create such a tool. It shouldn't be difficult for anyone familiar with C and DNS who has the tuits to spare. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren
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