How to find the reverse on a IP address?

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> > Sure.   just  nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and if it comes back
> > with a good/authoritive hostname it should be OK.
> >
> > Try   man nslookup  for more possibilities.
> 
> 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?

////jerry

> 
> Kirk Strauser
>