Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 00:26:50 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@outblaze.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint] Message-ID: <3A309B4A.268EE653@FreeBSD.org> References: <20001205133817.A24228@outblaze.com> <xzpwvdftcld.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3A2D1C5A.3234E4C5@glue.umd.edu>
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Brandon Fosdick wrote:
>
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> >
> > Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@outblaze.com> writes:
> > > Recently there was a message indicating that ISC is deprecating
> > > nslookup.
> >
> > "Recently"? nslookup has been officially deprecated for about a year
> > and a half, I believe.
>
> Will a replacement be added to the base distro? When?
This comes up VERY often, please make a habit of checking the mail
archives before posting questions of this sort.
If all you need to do is look up a name -> address or address -> name
mapping, 'host' provides everything you need, and then some. If you are
doing serious DNS debugging, you have to learn dig, period.
HTH,
Doug
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