Am working on the release-critical bugs in bind. It appears that lintian flags the 'mx' and 'ns' commands as possible namespace pollution. These, along with 'aaaa', 'soa', and 'zone' are symlinks to 'host' that do quickie lookups for those types of records, without having to specify an option like '-t soa'.
I'm inclined to agree with lintian that these are pretty worthless. However, since this is obviously not a release-critical issue, I thought I'd ask for opinions before I just do it... Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]