Re: [tlug] nslookup, dig, bind

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Coyner <kevin@example.com> writes:

    >> >>>>> "simon" == simon colston <simon@example.com> writes:

    simon> Is there any way of finding this out using the apt
    simon> programs?  Or is it a "you get a feel for it as you along"
    simon> type of thing?

    Kevin> Generally a command like this would give you good results:

    Kevin>     apt-cache search dns dig

Ah, that's cute.

But knowing that "dns" is the right keyword here is what I thought
simon meant by "get a feel".  One of the things about Unix is that the
program names are short mnemonics.  So "apt-cache search dig" is
likely to get you 80% of the packages with hits on "DIGital"!  I
would assume the "regex" in the command description is a Perl regex,
so you have some kind of word-boundary operator available; that would
help in this case.

But this kind of searching, I'm afraid, is just one of those things
that requires getting a feel for.


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