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Re: dnsutils package
- From: René Berber <r dot berber at computer dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:33:05 -0500
- Subject: Re: dnsutils package
- References: <gcb6kl$2fn$1@ger.gmane.org>
Adem wrote:
> has the "dnsutils" package not yet been ported to Cygwin?
> I think the "dig" utility which I need for querying DNS entries is in this package.
>
> The Cygwin package search page at http://cygwin.com/packages/
> finds neither dig nor dnsutils. OTOH the package search page
> at the Debian site http://www.debian.com/distrib/packages
> says "dig" is in the dnsutils package.
An alternative is to build bind (ISC's bind:
http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/) which builds with no problem out of the box
under Cygwin. Or just get the binary distributed by ISC, which is a
Windows native daemon and tools.
--
René Berber
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