From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 12 2:48:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D64037B479; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 02:48:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ents02 (t2o90p65.telia.com [195.67.216.185]) by mailc.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA01429; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:48:06 +0100 (CET) From: "James Wilde" To: "Doug Barton" , "Peter Chiu" Cc: Subject: RE: dig and nslookup Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:49:08 +0100 Message-ID: <000b01c04c96$2eeb93d0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <3A0DB8F7.59B1E419@FreeBSD.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Barton > Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 22:24 > > Peter Chiu wrote: > > > > Why dig is in /usr/bin but nslookup is in /usr/sbin ? A recent newbie aha! experience for me was the realisation that */bin was for client binaries and */sbin for server binaries. :*} However I quickly realised that this was by no means universal, more of a tendency. And I can't for the life of me defend the hypothesis in connection with nslookup and dig, both of which, one assumes, are clients. Can it be that named - the server - goes in sbin, and related binaries, even clients, landed in the same place? I am assuming here that nslookup is, shall we say, a closer relative of named than dig is. > > Because nslookup is retarded. > > Doug > PS, there really is no good answer. You shouldn't use nslookup anyway, > just use dig. Is this one of those religious wars of the vi/emacs sh/bsh/csh/tsh type? Nslookup, like, say, vi and sh, can be found on all machines, even on NT machines. And for the most part it does the job. mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message