Bug#136736: O: host -- Utility for Querying DNS Servers

[bdale@gag.com (Bdale Garbee)]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

This package provides the NIKHEF version of the program 'host'.  When I 
adopted the bind packages a long time ago, a previous maintainer had picked
up this version of 'host' and folded it into the bind source tree so that it
would be part of the 'dnsutils' binary package.  When BIND 9.X was released 
and I restructured the BIND packaging, I broke this out as a separate package.

More recently, I've created the package bind9-host to deliver the version of
'host' that comes with the BIND 9.X source from the ISC.  The two versions of
host have similar but different options.  I prefer the one from the ISC 
because it works better for me than this one.

The NIKHEF version was last released upstream in 1999.  It has a number of
open bugs, some of which I think will be difficult to resolve.  Please be sure
to have a look at the open bugs in the BTS and the sourcecode to the package
before you decide to adopt this one...

Bdale