From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 8 0:27: 9 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 00:27:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8FB37B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 00:27:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA10473; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 00:26:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com Message-ID: <3A309B4A.268EE653@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 00:26:50 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Yusuf Goolamabbas , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint] References: <20001205133817.A24228@outblaze.com> <3A2D1C5A.3234E4C5@glue.umd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > Yusuf Goolamabbas 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 -- So what I want to know is, where does the RED brick road go? Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message