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Re: Cygwin DNS lookup utility


It's great that this works.  I'll do it this way.  The directions I was
trying to follow were about how to take the *binary* for Windows and use it
directly.

John


Renà Berber-2 wrote:
> 
> jtriedl wrote:
> 
>> LOL.  I should have mentioned that I checked all the obvious permission
>> things, and they're all what one would expect:
>> 
>> (riedl-ibm-x40: /) ll /usr/bin/nslookup.exe
>> 60K -rwxr-xr-x 1 riedl Users 60K Jun 10 10:23 /usr/bin/nslookup.exe*
>> (riedl-ibm-x40: /) ll /usr/bin/dig.exe
>> 72K -rwxr-xr-x 1 riedl Users 72K Jun 10 10:23 /usr/bin/dig.exe*
>> (riedl-ibm-x40: /)
>> 
>> I was speculating that the permission was some windows restriction on
>> sending low-level name service requests, but I was hoping someone on this
>> list would know more.
> 
> ISC's BIND works fine out of the box (no "instructions" followed).  No 
> real answer to your question, my guess is that you did something wrong 
> (like follow "instructions" for a Microsoft compiler or build in a weird 
> file system, not NTFS, perhaps a network share or NFS mounted with no 
> execute permission).
> 
> $ tar xvf bind-9.5.0.tar.gz
> $ cd bind-9.5.0
> $ ./configure --enable-threads --with-openssl=yes --with-libtool
> $ make
> $ make install
> $ which dig
> /usr/local/bin/dig
> $ dig smbserver
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0 <<>> smbserver
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 52334
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;smbserver.                     IN      A
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> .                       8267    IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 
> NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2008061000 1800 900 604800 86400
> 
> ;; Query time: 9 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Jun 10 16:25:37 2008
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 102
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