Re: What happened to nslookup?

From: Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd_at_bluerosetech.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:16:51 -0700
On 10/11/2013 7:14 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:10:26PM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> ...
>>> Whatever happened to /usr/bin/nslookup in FreeBSD-current, and
>>> what is one supposed to use in its place?
>> ....
>
>> Use "host."
>
>> nslookup was part of BIND, and has been deprecated for years
>> (IIRC).
>
>> Peace, david
> --
>> David H. Wolfskill
>> david_at_catwhisker.org
>
> Thanks for info!
>
> I saw that bind was removed from the current branch because of
> security problems, but didn't know nslookup was part of BIND.

That one caught me as well when I did make check-old with 
WITHOUT_BIND=YES.  I installed dns/bind-tools to replace them (and got 
much newer versions in the process).
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