Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:00:32 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find the reverse on a IP address? Message-ID: <200401172100.i0HL0XI02157@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040116192018.GA61683@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> from "Matthew Seaman" at Jan 16, 2004 07:20:18 PM
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> > [nslookup being deprecated] > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:58:44PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > 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? > > No, it's neither Linux nor BSD derived. BIND is developed by the > Internet Software Consortium (http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/), and > they are the people responsible for that decision. Most Unix vendors > ship ISC Bind code and applications standard with their OSes, plus > there are quite a few shrink-wrap products based on ISC code, which > explains why nslookup(1) has been such a long time a-dying. > > FreeBSD uses a pretty straight port of ISC BIND to provide named(8), > host(1), dig(1) etc., (but AFAIK doesn't use the straight BIND > resolver code in libc) -- so nslookup(1) will disappear from FreeBSD > when ISC releases (and then FreeBSD imports) a BIND version without > it. Same probably goes for most Linux distributions. OK. It is just that when something gets labeled "deprecated" often there is a note indicating that put in the man page, but I didn't see one for nslookup. ////jerry > > Cheers, > > Matthew >
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