X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:55:26 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin DNS lookup utility Message-ID: <20080608205526.GB14542@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <484C134C.3000903@free.fr> <484C218A.6040300@free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <484C218A.6040300@free.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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 -- 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/