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Date:      Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:49:40 -0500
From:      mbac@mmap.nyct.net (Michael Bacarella)
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:  <20001205114940.A27123@mmap.nyct.net>
In-Reply-To: <3A2D1C5A.3234E4C5@glue.umd.edu>; from bfoz@glue.umd.edu on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:48:26AM -0500
References:  <20001205133817.A24228@outblaze.com> <xzpwvdftcld.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3A2D1C5A.3234E4C5@glue.umd.edu>

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On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:48:26AM -0500, Brandon Fosdick wrote:

> > > 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?

If you play with BIND v9, 'nslookup' itself tells you
that it's deprecated and that 'host' should be used instead.

I'm not a fan either.

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