Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40008EFD.A2FF87F7@dessent.net> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:47:09 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: dig on cygwin References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.linuxsv3.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - cygwin.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - dessent.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Steve wrote: > I noticed that dig was not in my cygwin at work ( win2k box ). > > I didn't see it on the page brought up on the "software" link on the > cygwin web site. > > Googling around I saw a windows port that looked a bit different. I > also found some *old* usenet posts about having to compile it yourself. > > I just learned about this tool. > > Before I use the other options above I thought I would ask if dig is in > cygwin but rolled into another package under another name. I don't belive dig is included in any Cygwin package. But ISC BIND supports windows and one of the downloads you can get is the set of command-line tools, which includes dig. So just install that somewhere in the path and you're good to go. At least that's what I do. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/