May you please add alias for nslookup?

Igor Mozolevsky igor at hybrid-lab.co.uk
Sat Oct 12 17:57:51 UTC 2013


On 12 October 2013 07:10, zhifeng hu <zf at ancientrocklab.com> wrote:

> I am noticed that the nslookup will not appear by default in freebsd 10.
> but this is a very basic tools, we need it very much more than you think.
> would you please add alias for nslookup ? such as
> alias nslookup="host -v"
>
> NOT FORCE USER TO INSTALL dns/bind-tool
>
> It's not good for human use experiences.
>

Hasn't nslookup been deprecated by ISC a long time ago?.. I remember a long
time ago when I installed ISC's bind &c that every time I ran nslookup I
got a massive notice stating that nslookup's been deprecated and I should
use dig instead....


-- 
Igor M.


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