Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      05 Dec 2000 18:00:22 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@outblaze.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint]
Message-ID:  <xzpsno2st09.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Brandon Fosdick's message of "Tue, 05 Dec 2000 11:48:26 -0500"
References:  <20001205133817.A24228@outblaze.com> <xzpwvdftcld.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3A2D1C5A.3234E4C5@glue.umd.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > "Recently"? nslookup has been officially deprecated for about a year
> > and a half, I believe.
> Will a replacement be added to the base distro? When?

1) nslookup is still in the base FreeBSD distribution, and will
   probably be for a long time.

2) use dig(1), which is a lot more useful (and less magical).

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xzpsno2st09.fsf>