Binary package “dnsutils” in ubuntu-rtm 14.09
Clients provided with BIND
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet domain
name server. BIND is the most widely-used name server software on the
Internet, and is supported by the Internet Software Consortium, www.isc.org.
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This package delivers various client programs related to DNS that are
derived from the BIND source tree.
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- dig - query the DNS in various ways
- nslookup - the older way to do it
- nsupdate - perform dynamic updates (See RFC2136)