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Bug#4222: dig in the wrong package?



> Package: bind
> Version: 4.9.3-P1-3
> 
> `dig' really belongs in the `dnsutils' package, not the `bind'
> package; just because one is not running a local name server does not
> imply that one doens't want to use `dig' to look things up.
> 

May I suggest that the "nslookup" in the dnsutils package is replaced
by the real one. The nslookup in dnsutils is now a shell script wrapper
around "host" and I HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT

I guess I've made my point haven't I :)

Mike.
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