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Date:      Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:24:47 +0100 (CET)
From:      Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address?
Message-ID:  <20040116192117.D46260@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
In-Reply-To: <200401161818.i0GIIbr27373@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
References:  <200401161818.i0GIIbr27373@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote:

> > Do note that nslookup is deprecated; see
> > http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=3D140 for a decent
explanation why.
>
> Kind of short on information there.   Maybe that is because I am not
> registered on that site.   Anyway, is that being "deprecated" sort of
> a LINUXy thing?   Does it apply to BSD, especaily FreeBSD too?

Hi!

deprecated means, that this program has a successor (in this case dig(1)
) and it may happen, that it disappears in a future release.

So you get that warning, so that you have time to get familiar with it,
that you may re-write some of your scripts still using nslookup etc.

HTH
Olaf

-- 
Olaf Hoyer        ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net
Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten,
ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist.
(Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)



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