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Distribution: OpenBSD 4.6, OS X 10.6.2, CentOS 4 & 5
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That's just plain weird. dig is part of the standard ISC BIND installation. Oh well, I guess the Debian maintainers came up with a "better" way to handle it (yes, the quotes imply sarcasm).
Did you install Debian on this server or is it a VPS, or dedicated server you are renting? I have a VPS that also doesn't have dig, or nslookup installed. I ended up installing host. Any other install of Debian I have done would install these by default.
I think they packaged it separately so you can have the tools dig, host, and nslookup without actually installing the name server. I know I found it useful.
It was a plain debian install from a mini ISO not a VPS or hosted account. It's funny because host and nslookup were already there but dig was not. I guess the important thing is that it is there now. Thanks for the help.
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