Why is netstat deprecated?
Found an article on deprecation from 2011. It seems like the whole net-tools
package was not maintained for a while and so it was deprecated. In Debian 9 it is not even installed by default. From the project page it seems like there were no updates at least since 2011.
But you can easily install netstat
(and e.g. ifconfig
) and keep using them. I would probably only use them for listing stuff though.
Installing on Debian 9:
apt-get install net-tools
PS: For more information you might want to see another Q&A about ifconfig
deprecation (ifconfig
is part of the same package): https://serverfault.com/questions/458628/should-i-quit-using-ifconfig
Why is netstat
deprecated? Because it says so in the man page:
NOTE This program is obsolete. Replacement for netstat is ss. Replacement for netstat -r is ip route. Replacement for netstat -i is ip -s link. Replacement for netstat -g is ip maddr.
Why did the developers deprecate netstat
? I don't know.
It's open source, though. If you want to revive it, make it more useful and get it "undeprecated," feel free to do so.