From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 13:00:57 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 9331116A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:00:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4980743D49 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:00:55 -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 i0HL0XI02157; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:00:33 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200401172100.i0HL0XI02157@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:00:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20040116192018.GA61683@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> from "Matthew Seaman" at Jan 16, 2004 07:20:18 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Olaf Hoyer 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: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:00:57 -0000 > > [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 >