Hi Michael, Robert,

I've just had an instance of user confusion regarding unbound-hosts'
function happen in front of me. Mirroring the confusion in #508053.

Contemporary DNS debugging is confusing enough already I think we should
rename the package and binary. I propose unbound-lookup -- just to get the
bikeshedding going ;-). Something implying that it does a lookup at the
root may be better.

I don't see any packages in Debian using unbound-host direcly:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=unbound-host&page=1&perpkg=1

Happy to forward this upstream too but I think we should move on this first
and before trixie still.

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tag -1 + upstream
Hi!

I'm sorry to find this bug an year after it's filed.

For the suggestion, it is definitely an upstream decision, and
definitely not something we should do before upstream.

Using name "host" is traditional with bind's host utility, it's
historic and, I think, should not be changed now.

BTW, I used name `dnsget' for a similar utility of mine :)

Thanks,

/mjt

On Tue, 5 May 2026 15:55:10 +0300 Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
[..]

I see no reason to keep this bug report in the debian BTS, as it
unnecessary draws attention to something which should be decided
elsewhere.

Closing it now.

Thanks,

/mjt