DNS Sniffing

[SjH]

Hi,

I have been trying to locate a package for dns lookups without much luck. after trawling through the hundreds of results under emerge --search, i thought I'd have a look on here.

now i know that nslookup is depricated - which is probably why I cant find it, however i also cant locate dig.

I dont really care what package it is, as long as it can query a dns server from command line and display the data in a reasonable fashion.

I supose that if absolutely nescessary i could compile something to do the job, but i find it unlikely that there isn't a package out there which provides standard network tools...

Any thoughts?

Thanks,


Stuart

[keyson]

Hi.

emerge bind-tools

[wynn]

See whether net-dns/host, which is in portage, suits you (Note: the binary is called hostx )

There is also adnshost (not in portage) http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/

[SjH]

Thanks bind-tools had everything in it.

Regards

Stuart