From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 10:59:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97A316A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:59:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A405643D1F for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:58:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i0GIwjv27588; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:58:45 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200401161858.i0GIwjv27588@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net (Olaf Hoyer) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:58:44 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20040116192117.D46260@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> from "Olaf Hoyer" at Jan 16, 2004 07:24:47 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Jerry McAllister cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:59:01 -0000 > > 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. I don't mean to ask about the meaning of the word deprecated, but rather, is nslookup being deprecated a LINUXy thing, or is that going to happen in FreeBSD too? ////jerry > > 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) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >