Cygwin DNS lookup utility

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David a écrit :
> The GNU "host" command is a useful DNS lookup utility.
> 
> Is the "host" command available in cygwin?
> (Cygwin does not install it by default)
> 
> If the "host" utility is available in cygwin, which cygwin package 
> should I install to have it?
> 
> otherwise, is there are simple "host" alternative in a cygwin package?
> (console application, not a graphical user interface)

You can use the offical Bind "binary kit" for windows:

http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/view/?release=9.5.0

It contains the server side of Bind but also the client utilities (dig, 
host, etc.)

You can extract the binaries you interested in and make a personalized 
cygwin package called "bindtools" out of it.

Be careful, the "host.exe" and "dig.exe" need some weird other binaries 
files such as the *.manifest files (i'm speaking of version 9.4.x, i did 
not try 9.5.x yet).

These is the content of my bindtools-9.4.2.tar.bz2 archive:

bin/bindevt.dll
bin/BINDInstall.exe
bin/dig.exe
bin/host.exe
bin/libbind9.dll
bin/libdns.dll
bin/libeay32.dll
bin/libisc.dll
bin/libisccc.dll
bin/libisccfg.dll
bin/liblwres.dll
bin/mfc80.dll
bin/mfc80u.dll
bin/mfcm80.dll
bin/mfcm80u.dll
bin/Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest
bin/Microsoft.VC80.MFC.manifest
bin/Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC.manifest
bin/msvcm80.dll
bin/msvcp80.dll
bin/msvcr80.dll
bin/nslookup.exe

Regards,

Nicolas

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