What rpm provides dig and host tools

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Thu Aug 16 00:28:02 UTC 2007


At 11:06 PM +0100 8/15/07, ne... wrote:
>On 8/15/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
>> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Looking for the package name to install the dig and host tools.
>> > yum provides dig or host gives me a long scrolling list and still not
>> > know what to choose.
>>
>> It is bind-utils.  If you do a
>>
>> yum whatprovides /usr/bin/dig
>Chaps, you have to remember that if the OP does not have the binary on
>his system, he is not going to know how to structure the query.

Ahh, but what about globbing `yum provides '*/dig'`?  OK, it's slow, and
the output is copious, but what else?
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