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Date:      Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:35:08 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: xhost +localhost
Message-ID:  <4201559C.7080502@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050202221851.GE77499@keyslapper.net>
References:  <ef60af09050202095829be3b6f@mail.gmail.com> <20050202210526.GC77499@keyslapper.net> <42014E0A.5070003@mac.com> <20050202221851.GE77499@keyslapper.net>

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Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Don't shoot the messenger! :)

Heh, sorry, that wasn't my intention.

[ ... ]
> It's probably not the only deprecation or interface change from 4.x.  I
> believe the 'nslookup' tool is now a wrapper to the 'host' utility, but
> I never used either one in complex enough ways to see any
> incompatibility.  I can't quite remember, but I have the feeling there
> was another gotcha I had to get used to going to 5.x.

nslookup being depreciated was actually announced, and a version (or several?) 
which gave a warning to use something else but otherwise worked fine were 
released over the course of a year or two, and *then* the program got changed.

-- 
-Chuck



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