Re: What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-16 Thread Graham Todd
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 16.10.13 08:42, Kevin Oberman wrote: nslookup(1) was deprecated about a decade ago because it often provides misleading results when used for DNS troubleshooting. It generally works fine for simply turning a name to an address or vice-versa. Pe

Re: What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-16 Thread Allan Jude
On 2013-10-16 05:44, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > On 16.10.13 08:42, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >> nslookup(1) was deprecated about a decade ago because it often provides >> misleading results when used for DNS troubleshooting. It generally works >> fine for simply turning a name to an address or vice-ve

Re: What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-16 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 16.10.13 08:42, Kevin Oberman wrote: nslookup(1) was deprecated about a decade ago because it often provides misleading results when used for DNS troubleshooting. It generally works fine for simply turning a name to an address or vice-versa. People should really use host(1) for simple looku

Re: What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 10/12/13 10:28 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:14:28AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> >>> ... >>> Thanks for info! >>> >> Glad to help. >> >> I saw that bind was removed from the current branch because of se

Re: What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/12/13 10:28 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:14:28AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: ... Thanks for info! Glad to help. I saw that bind was removed from the current branch because of security problems, It was removed, but I believe that there was a bit more to it tha

Re: What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 10/11/2013 7:14 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:10:26PM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: ... Whatever happened to /usr/bin/nslookup in FreeBSD-current, and what is one supposed to use in its place? Use "host." nslookup was part of BIND, and has been deprecated for

Re: What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-11 Thread David Wolfskill
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:14:28AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > ... > Thanks for info! Glad to help. > I saw that bind was removed from the current branch because of security > problems, It was removed, but I believe that there was a bit more to it than "security problems." > but didn't know

Re: What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:10:26PM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > ... > > Whatever happened to /usr/bin/nslookup in FreeBSD-current, and what is one > > supposed to use in its place? > > Use "host." > nslookup was part of BIND, and has been deprecated for years (IIRC). > Peace, > david -

Re: What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-11 Thread David Wolfskill
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:10:26PM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > ... > Whatever happened to /usr/bin/nslookup in FreeBSD-current, and what is one > supposed to use in its place? > Use "host." nslookup was part of BIND, and has been deprecated for years (IIRC). Peace, david -- David H. Wo

What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
I thought I sent this message yesterday, but couldn't find it in the downloaded list messages, so maybe I forgot. Whatever happened to /usr/bin/nslookup in FreeBSD-current, and what is one supposed to use in its place? I see nslookup is in FreeBSD 9.2, but why not in -current? There has been p