How to find the reverse on a IP address?

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote:

> > Do note that nslookup is deprecated; see
> > http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=3D140 for a decent
explanation why.
>
> Kind of short on information there.   Maybe that is because I am not
> registered on that site.   Anyway, is that being "deprecated" sort of
> a LINUXy thing?   Does it apply to BSD, especaily FreeBSD too?

Hi!

deprecated means, that this program has a successor (in this case dig(1)
) and it may happen, that it disappears in a future release.

So you get that warning, so that you have time to get familiar with it,
that you may re-write some of your scripts still using nslookup etc.

HTH
Olaf

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