"Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My machine --running potato-- claimed not to know either nslookup or > traceroute. No man pages, either. > > Are there Debian equivalents to these commands?
Yes, try the following: % apt-cache search nslookup dnsutils - Utilities for Querying DNS Servers % apt-cache search traceroute traceroute - Traces the route taken by packets over a TCP/IP network. libnet-rawip-perl - Perl interface to lowlevel TCP/IP xt - A graphical traceroute libnet0-dev - Routines for the construction and handling of network packets. mtr - Full screen ncurses or X11 traceroute tool traceroute-nanog - NANOG traceroute apt-cache is a great tool for finding things. Gary