> all of its functionality can be more easily performed with `host` I've seen far too many junior admins accidentally change the hostname of a server when chec

> all of its functionality can be more easily performed with `host` I've seen far too many junior admins accidentally change the hostname of a server when checking a DNS record... Dig is verbose by default, which is usually what I want. It can be made as terse as host with the +short option. host -vt SOA google.com is more typing than dig google.com SOA. Neither dig or host is very good for use by other programs.