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Re:New Year's Resolutions for SysAdmins by ams6110 on Friday January 03, 2014 @12:02AM (#7004250)
They're a bit dated. Use dig instead of nslookup, and right from the ifconfig man page:

NOTE

This program is obsolete! For replacement check ip addr and ip link. For statistics use ip -s link.

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Re:New Year's Resolutions for SysAdmins by blhack on Friday January 03, 2014 @12:17AM (#7004284)
Where does it say that?

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig

Pedantry, but keep in mind that there isn't really "the" man page for this.

Ubuntu might want to deprecate ifconfig, but that doesn't mean everyone does.

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Re:New Year's Resolutions for SysAdmins by ams6110 on Friday January 03, 2014 @01:08AM (#7004403)
You're right, and I use OpenBSD myself so I should have qualified it. The man page I quoted was CentOS in this case.
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Re:New Year's Resolutions for SysAdmins by protomyth on Friday January 03, 2014 @12:16AM (#7004283)
This is Linux specific advice for ifconfig, correct?
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Re:New Year's Resolutions for SysAdmins by ams6110 on Friday January 03, 2014 @01:06AM (#7004396)
Yes
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