On Monday 09 July 2012 09:34:34 Avleen Vig wrote: > The issue is also one of barrier-to-entry. By removing `dig` and > `host`, I think we're making things unnecessarily more difficult for > people who don't *know* FreeBSD. `dig` and `host` a universally > standard tools for doing DNS lookups. Taking them away in base to > replace them with something else just seems like something that won't > really *help* users.
Yes. So we should change the base system so that by default it does a database lookup whenever you type an unrecognised command - to lower the barrier to entry. We should also change the base system to remove the most commonly used tools for doing DNS lookups, to.... what was the reason again? I suppose at least those arguing for both these changes can argue that one mitigates the non-POLA effect of the other.... Jonathan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
