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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:21:12 -0600 (MDT)
From:      John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        "Philip M. Gollucci" <gollucci@wam.umd.edu>, CLE47@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ip question
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006262219430.20919-100000@inconnu.isu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000627025025.I57917@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>

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I stand corrected, I just found out about the nslookup deprecation last
week and started to get familiar with it Saturday... 

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:

> John Galt wrote:
> 
> > Use dig--they're talking about deprecating nslookup in bind 9... so it'll
> > be:
> > 
> > dig @63.8.31.60
> 
> No, it won't.  @foo specifies that dig should use foo as the nameserver.  I
> think you'd need
> 
> dig -x 63.8.31.60 ptr
> 
> The only thing which annoys me about dig is that you don't do "dig
> foo" where "foo" is a local name, you must explicitly say "dig
> foo.my.domain.whatever.com".  Oh well.
> 
> 

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