From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 17:33:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1029E1065687 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:33:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91B58FC28 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:33:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.51]) by QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Pqdx1a00N16AWCUA9tZiA4; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:33:42 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id PtZh1a00l2P6wsM8StZhB4; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:33:42 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=fWK4g_uD5tAA:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=4iW3WC-CFVa7Vrv9SEwA:9 a=liyqIe3_4RKJ9pprMqiOOkQe7DoA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7C4F2C9419; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:33:41 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: xer xernet Message-ID: <20081007173341.GA54495@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stable 7.0 and nslookup help command X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:33:44 -0000 On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 06:30:23PM +0200, xer xernet wrote: > Hello to anyone. > > I'm a FreeBSD user, i'm still a new bee but i still keep to learning. > Anyway, here is my question: > > I use a FreeBSD STABLE-7 not installed by me, in this installation nslookup works very good and the "?" or "help" command working properly, infact the every time i recall the command "?" or "help" nslookup show me the file "nslookup.help" in /usr/share/misc. > > Now, i did installed (by me) e STABLE-7 and i don't understand why the "?" command is not implemented on nslookup, also the file "nslookup.help" doen't exist. > How can i implement this feature on my fresh STABLE-7 install ? Not to dissuade you from what you're trying to accomplish, but "nslookup" has been deprecated (this has been stated a few times by the BIND folks), and "host" is probably on its way out as well (though I remember somewhere, sometime, nslookup used to state "being deprecated, use 'host' or 'dig' instead" -- or something like that). Please learn to use the "dig" command. I realise it has a somewhat high learning curve at first (syntax-wise it can be somewhat messy), but ultimately it's an immensely powerful -- or simple! -- DNS tool. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |