What happened to nslookup?

Thomas Mueller mueller6724 at bellsouth.net
Sat Oct 12 02:14:31 UTC 2013


> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:10:26PM +0000, 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
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> David H. Wolfskill                              david at catwhisker.org

Thanks for info!

I saw that bind was removed from the current branch because of security problems, but didn't know nslookup was part of BIND.

Now I see in $PORTSDIR/dns/bind-tools/pkg-plist

bin/dig
bin/host
bin/nslookup

so host is also part of BIND?

I will remember to use "host" in the future.

Tom



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