X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <484C5833.9090301@free.fr> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:07:47 +0200 From: cuicui User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin DNS lookup utility References: <484C134C.3000903@free.fr> <484C218A.6040300@free.fr> <20080608205526.GB14542@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20080608205526.GB14542@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Christopher Faylor a écrit : >>>>> 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. Thanks for the offer but even if I build linux stuff on my own because official packages don't meet my requirement, I'm not a developer so I don't think I'm qualified for these (I think this is a dev job more than a sysadmin thing). Regards, Nicolas -- 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/