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 Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:14:44 -0400 From: Steve Coleman Subject: Re: 'dig', 'nslookup' etc? In-reply-to: <3F7BAF4E.7689E54F@dessent.net> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <3F7DA074.50801@jhuapl.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <013301c38905$16be7c10$200aa8c0@thorin> <3F7BAF4E.7689E54F@dessent.net> Brian Dessent wrote: >You can use the binaries from the precompiled win32 BIND packages from >ISC. They're not cygwin aware, but since they're ports from a unix-like >environment you can hardly tell the difference. > > For the client side command line there is also "/cygdrive/C/WINNT/system32/NSLOOKUP.EXE" on some Win32 OS's but because it is not Cygwin aware you can not use it in a pipe, popen, perl open(X,"cmd |"), or by greping the stdout for the desired patterns within a script. I hve been looking for something to do a little scripting of my custom dynamic DNS updates at home and found the perl Net::DNS package yesterday, but alas, installing via CPAN.pm it failed some of its tests. I'll have to look into this package a little more when I have the time. -- 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/