On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:32:50 +1100
wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On 17 Oct 2018, at 15:58, Steve Litt
> > wrote:
> >
> > What's your opinion of nslookup as an alternative to dig? Not sure,
> > but I think you need to install bind to get dig, and not everyone
> > wants to install bind.
>
Quoting wirelessd...@gmail.com (wirelessd...@gmail.com):
> Since looking at Unbound and NSD, I’ve been trying out drill as an
> alternative developed by the same NLnet people.
>
> https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/ldns/about/
>
> Install via the ldnsutils package.
'drill' is the very newest
> On 17 Oct 2018, at 15:58, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> What's your opinion of nslookup as an alternative to dig? Not sure, but
> I think you need to install bind to get dig, and not everyone wants to
> install bind.
Since looking at Unbound and NSD, I’ve been trying out drill as an alternative
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com):
> What's your opinion of nslookup as an alternative to dig? Not sure, but
> I think you need to install bind to get dig, and not everyone wants to
> install bind.
1. No, dig isn't bundled with BIND9 _in Linux distros_ (or in other
*ixes), all of
For ASCII, both dig and nslookup belong to the dnsutils package, which
also offers nsupdate (which seems like some other useful dns utility :)
and nothing else.
Ralph.
Steve Litt wrote on 17/10/18 15:58:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 23:52:34 -0700
> Rick Moen wrote:
>
> Rick's first word of the
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 23:52:34 -0700
Rick Moen wrote:
Rick's first word of the following paragraph refers to the dig
program...
> It's the most versatile and reliable tool around for testing DNS
> functionality -- which in turn is useful to be able to test separately
> from the separate task of
