From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 25 19:13:13 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E26A7D26 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bs1.fjl.org.uk (bs1.fjl.org.uk [84.45.41.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 667531A9C for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.35] (host86-163-127-175.range86-163.btcentralplus.com [86.163.127.175]) (authenticated bits=0) by bs1.fjl.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s0PJD5IZ084480 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:13:05 GMT (envelope-from freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk) Message-ID: <52E40CC4.6090401@fjl.co.uk> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:13:08 +0000 From: Frank Leonhardt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Why was nslookup removed from FreeBSD 10? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:13:13 -0000 Unbelievable, but true - someone somewhere thought that removing nslookup from the base system was the way to go. Why? Can anyone shed any light on how this decision was made? That's the question. The remainder are a few observations to save an obvious response... nslookup has been deprecated in some quarters for while now, with that annoying message asking people to use dig instead, although ISC changed its mind on this point after BIND 9.8. That's not a reason, and anyway, dig is missing too. Was it dropped because it's part on BIND, and that's been dropped from the base system (bad idea if you ask me, but no one did)? Well, as far as I can tell, this move has left us having to use "host" instead, and that's part of the BIND package too. What's next? Will someone get the bright idea that "ls" is a bit dated and/or unfamiliar to Microsofties and replace it with "dir"? (And EVEN WINDOWS has nslookup). If I wanted an OS that lacked features such as DNS out of the box, I'd have chosen Linux. Regards, Frank.