Why does Ubuntu 14.04.2 have the bind9-host packages upon installation? [closed]
Why does Ubuntu 14.04.2 have the bind9-host packages upon installation? Is this a bundled upon installing the Ubuntu OS? Is there a way to avoid having this packages upon installation?
Solution 1:
The reason the package is called bind9-host is because it's part of the bind9 suite. However, it doesn't include the entire bind server, just the host executable (and documentation). host is a simple utility for performing DNS lookups, not a DNS server.
You probably shouldn't remove it, since there are probably several scripts that depend on it.