xhost +localhost

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed Feb 2 14:35:37 PST 2005


Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Don't shoot the messenger! :)

Heh, sorry, that wasn't my intention.

[ ... ]
> It's probably not the only deprecation or interface change from 4.x.  I
> believe the 'nslookup' tool is now a wrapper to the 'host' utility, but
> I never used either one in complex enough ways to see any
> incompatibility.  I can't quite remember, but I have the feeling there
> was another gotcha I had to get used to going to 5.x.

nslookup being depreciated was actually announced, and a version (or several?) 
which gave a warning to use something else but otherwise worked fine were 
released over the course of a year or two, and *then* the program got changed.

-- 
-Chuck



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