On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:42:43AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Avleen Vig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [snip] > > > 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. > > > [snip] > > One reason I'd like to see these "standard tools" be replaced with > something better is that their output sucks for use in any kind of > automation (unlike e.g. some of the the tools that ship with djbdns). >
Where there is a will there is a way... usually boils down to the administrators understanding and use of system utilities to get the results they want. -- - (2^(N-1)) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
