How to find the reverse on a IP address?

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> 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.

I don't mean to ask about the meaning of the word deprecated, but
rather, is nslookup being deprecated a LINUXy thing, or is that
going to happen in FreeBSD too?

////jerry

> 
> HTH
> Olaf
> 
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