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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:16:51 -0700
From:      Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
To:        Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>,  freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What happened to nslookup?
Message-ID:  <5258BF23.5090005@bluerosetech.com>
In-Reply-To: <54.9B.16944.480B8525@cdptpa-oedge02>
References:  <0E.82.01315.25778525@cdptpa-oedge03> <20131011221302.GH1611@albert.catwhisker.org> <54.9B.16944.480B8525@cdptpa-oedge02>

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On 10/11/2013 7:14 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:10:26PM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> ...
>>> Whatever happened to /usr/bin/nslookup in FreeBSD-current, and
>>> what is one supposed to use in its place?
>> ....
>
>> Use "host."
>
>> nslookup was part of BIND, and has been deprecated for years
>> (IIRC).
>
>> Peace, david
> --
>> David H. Wolfskill
>> david@catwhisker.org
>
> Thanks for info!
>
> I saw that bind was removed from the current branch because of
> security problems, but didn't know nslookup was part of BIND.

That one caught me as well when I did make check-old with 
WITHOUT_BIND=YES.  I installed dns/bind-tools to replace them (and got 
much newer versions in the process).



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