Re: [Astlinux-devel] Can't Add Bind to New Dev Build

[Josh A. <jm...@ho...>]

Hi Lonnie,

My goal here is to be able to do NAPTR lookups since much of my VOIP stuff uses ENUM. Of course I can SSH to another box or use an online dig but I'm lazy so I like to have the ability to do NAPTR lookups wherever I find myself logged in.

You mentioned 'host' and I never checked to see whether it was capable of doing NAPTR lookups. It turns out that it can. So, rather than use dig or even unbound-host, I think I will just use host on my Astlinux machines when I find myself in need of a NAPTR lookup. No extra software needed!

Thanks again for your feedback. I never knew about unbound so it's good to know that it exists. I also wasn't aware of the LXC container functionality in Astlinux - that could be useful at some point! I've been using Astlinux for perhaps 8 years at this point and I am happy that it still seems to be going strong.

Josh

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From: Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2022 11:21 AM
To: AstLinux Developers Mailing List <ast...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-devel] Can't Add Bind to New Dev Build



> On Feb 20, 2022, at 9:54 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...> wrote:
>
>
>> On Feb 20, 2022, at 9:06 AM, Josh Alberts <jm...@ho...> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Astlinux Team,
>>
>> I tried to make a fresh development built last night and I am unable to include 'bind libs and dig tool'. After adding it in 'make menuconfig' this is the error that I get when running the build script:
>>
>> ...
>
>> It's not imperative for me to have bind but I like to have it in my dev builds so I can use dig. Would you guys please consider bumping the version of bind to something that will build with Astlinux?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> AstLinux has never included "bind" in the image, the package has originated with an early Buildroot.
>
> Years ago we looked at adding "dig", but it added a lot to the disk image size ... which 5MB of .xz compressed source might imply.
>
> Instead the "unbound" package installs unbound-host (with a symlink for "host"), while not "dig" it provides a lot of functionality.  Much better than Busybox's nslookup.
>
> Lonnie

Josh, another thought...

In cases where it might be handy to have diagnostic tools (like "dig") you can install a Debian LXC container within AstLinux.

LXC container in AstLinux
https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:guest_lxc_container

The LXC container is not part of the AstLinux image, but uses /mnt/kd/lxc/ for storage, and must be kept updated separately.


Lonnie





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