[NBLUG/talk] nslookup and debian

Steve srj at adnd.com
Tue Feb 10 15:36:01 PST 2004


Cool thanks, that worked, I also installed apt-file for next time =)

-Steve



On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:59:05PM -0800, troy wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:49:16PM -0800, Steve wrote:
> > I for some odd reason can not find nslookup on debian.  Anyone know what
> > package will install nslookup?
> 
> I happen to know that this is in the dnsutils package (at least on
> unstable) but one way to find this out is to install apt-file
> 
> Description: APT package searching utility -- command-line interface
>  apt-file is a command line tool for searching packages for the APT
>   packaging system.
>   .
>    Unlike apt-cache, you can search in which package a file is included
>    or list the contents of a package without installing or fetching
>    it.
> 
> 
> You have to do an 'apt-file update' then usage is: 
> apt-file search nslookup 
> 
> specifying the full path if you know it will limit the results (which
> can be long)
> apt-file search /sbin/iptables
> 
> 
> -troy
> 
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