Re: May you please add alias for nslookup?

On 2013-10-12 14:18, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2013-10-12 12:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>> RW wrote:
>>> On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:44:56 +0200
>>> Ivan Voras wrote:
>>>
>>>> explaning the user what has happened and optionally invoking "host"
>>>> or "dig".
>>> Actually dig has gone 
>> Rather cryptic for me so I looked:
>>
>> dig has gone from current src/usr.bin/dig 
>> nslookup & dig & host 
>> are all installed by either of current
>> ports/dns/bind99 or ports/dns/bind-tools 
>>
>>
>>> and has been replaced by the unbound utility
>>> drill. 
>> src/usr.bin/drill/
>>
>>
>> I agree with O.P. Zhifeng Hu's "this is a very basic tools".
>>
>> Removing src/contrib/bind9 from FreeBSD-10 will get criticised as:
>>  "Calls itself a server OS, but no name server out of the box!"
>>
>> Please resist periodic urges to strip src/ towards just a tool set
>> capable of rebuilding itself.  Tossing expected tools (even if a
>> port is more up to date & secure) will annoy users, & potential
>> immigrants from other Unixes may try then toss FreeBSD.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Julian
> It is easier to keep bind up to date from ports. If you want DNSSEC
> support in 9, you have to replace the bind in base anyway....
>
> bind is replaced with unbound, which providers most of the functionality
> required in most instances.
>
> I forget the exact numbers, but when I looked about 20 of the security
> advisories over the last 10 years have been because of bind. That is
> over 12% of all vulnerabilities.
>
des_at_'s blog adds another important point, bind10 required python.
FreeBSD doesn't want to ship with python in base, so keeping bind wasn't
really an option