net-tools,  which  contains  "traditional"  tools  like  ifconfig  and
  netstat, has been deprecated[1] a long time ago. Me, personally,  I've
  adopted  the  use  of iproute2 tools also quite some years ago, except
  for one thing: netstat.

  ss, the netstat replacement, used to have  a  really  annoying  output
  format.  That's  what I remember, at least. Today, the output of ss is
  well formatted, convenient, and actually easier to read than  that  of
  netstat.  I  haven't looked up when this changed or if this changed at
  all. Maybe I don't remember it correctly.

  Either way, net-tools just got removed from my machines.  netstat  was
  the last tool I used from that suite.


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  Yeah, just checked with some older Ubuntu 16.04. The output was really
  bad back then, especially when using the "-p" flag.

  IPv6 addresses now always have brackets around them. If they are link-
  local, ss shows the interface.

  So, my memory was correct. ss's output *was* pretty bad, but they sure
  did improve it. Nice!

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  1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00780.html