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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