Cygwin DNS lookup utility

cuicui cuicui.oizo@free.fr
Sun Jun 8 22:24:00 GMT 2008


Christopher Faylor a écrit :

>>>>> If the "host" utility is available in cygwin, which cygwin 
>>>>> package should I install to have it?
>>>> You can use the offical Bind "binary kit" for windows:
>>> [...]
>>>> 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).
>>> Why inflict the "weird other binaries" on the OP?  The vanilla
>>> Bind 9.4.2 (and likely later) package from ISC builds OOTB with
>>> Cygwin.
>> Because building and testing a "bindtools" package from the
>> official source code and sharing it to the community sounds like
>> the job of a Cygwin package maintainer ;)
>> 
>> If anyone volunteers to do that, I'll be more than pleased to use
>> an "official" Cygwin package of Bind instead of doing some dark
>> magic to make it work. In the meanwhile I prefer using the binary
>> kit provided by ISC.
> 
> Any reason why you can't volunteer?  It's not that hard.

Thanks for the offer but even if I build linux stuff on my own because
official packages don't meet my requirement, I'm not a developer so I
don't think I'm qualified for these (I think this is a dev job more than
a sysadmin thing).

Regards,

Nicolas

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