Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated Debian 2.2. Any help
> > would be appreciated.
> 
> As a side note, nslookup is deprecated[1], you might want to learn to use
> host and dig instead.  I've found host quite handy in fact, most of the
> times I only want to know hostname matching an IP and vice versa, and host
> is the perfect tool for that.
> 
> [1] Starting from BIND9 nslookup tells this to you itself when you run it,
>     though I've got the impression it's been deprecated even longer.

Do I need dnsutils or are dig and host in some other package?

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