Re: install nslookup
On Friday 01 February 2002 04:05 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:08:50 -0800 ben <benfoley@rcn.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 01 February 2002 08:48 am, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > I can't find "dig" with apt-cache search. I do find something called
> > > "htdig". Is this basically the same thing?
> >
> > no, not at all the same thing. you'll find dig in dnsutils.
>
> When I try to "# apt-get install dnsutils", it says that it also
> wants to install bind9-host, libdns5, libisc4, liblwres1.
>
> Do I really readlly need most of bind9 just to do ns lookups?
apparently dig checks its query options against what is supported by bind9. i
guess that's the reason it's there.
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