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. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"