Re: BIND9 Questions

[Dean Hamstead <dean@fragfest.com.au>]

in regards to 'dig' an install of debian doesnt make many assumptions.
i also think ping and traceroute arent installed in minimal installs,
they are part of netutils i believe.

lots of small packages is the preferred option.

Dean

Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
> On 11/21/06, Grok Mogger <linuximp@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have two questions about BIND9.
> >
> > 1) I read on www.aboutdebian.com that you should not have any
> > blank lines in your zone files.  Why is that?  I've never seen
> > that anywhere before, and I think some blank lines would greatly
> > help the readability of my zone files.
>
> Neither do I... can't seem to find any of this restriction in RFC's
> 1034 and 1035...
>
> > 2) What is up with "dig" in Debian?  I'm using Debian Etch and
> > it didn't come with dig by default.  I tried looking for dig in
> > the repositories using aptitude, but didn't find it.
>
> apt-get install dnsutils