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On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 08:14:34PM +0200, cuicui wrote:
> Mark Geisert a ?crit :
>
>>>> 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.

cgf

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