On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 15:54, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:40:59PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > That one still bugs me too. :) Most of the time I just ignore the > > deprecation warning and use nslookup. > > There are good reasons not to, by the way. For one thing, using it to try > and diagnose name resolution issues on your system is somewhat like using > pigs to find out about human diseases -- it's similar, but it's not using > the same mechanisms, so you can't be certain that the results are > meaningful. > > Plus, it does that wacky thing where it tries to resolve server names > instead of just doing what it's told. > > Plus, "host" is shorter to type anyway. :) Old dogs and all that. :) Always new things to learn, shame we keep relearning the same stuff just with different names. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx quatnum decoherence
