unable to get a nslookup on windows client
Mark Andrews
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Nov 21 22:07:08 UTC 2007
> On 20 Nov 2007, at 22:08, Kevin Darcy wrote:
>
> > Short version (not that I'm famous for being terse): nslookup sucks.
>
> Yes, but ...
>
> When I try to explain this, my colleagues who live mainly (or even
> exclusively) in the MS Windows environment tell me, "nslookup is
> all there is". Installing BIND, just to have dig on their machines,
> seems to have too high a (perceived) cost.
You mean a couple of bytes of disk space. The server (named)
is not started by default. You have to explicitly start it.
The full release is on 7860K. A word document takes more than
that these days.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 245760 Oct 31 16:16 BINDInstall.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 53248 Oct 31 16:16 bindevt.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 73728 Oct 31 16:16 dig.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 17920 Oct 31 16:15 dnssec-keygen.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 49152 Oct 31 16:16 dnssec-signzone.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 61440 Oct 31 16:15 host.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 31744 Oct 31 16:13 libbind9.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 958464 Oct 31 16:12 libdns.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1028096 May 1 2007 libeay32.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 212992 Oct 31 16:10 libisc.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23552 Oct 31 16:13 libisccc.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 65536 Oct 31 16:13 libisccfg.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33792 Oct 31 16:13 liblwres.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13824 Oct 31 16:15 named-checkconf.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13824 Oct 31 16:15 named-checkzone.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13824 Oct 31 16:15 named-compilezone.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 262144 Oct 31 16:15 named.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 61440 Oct 31 16:15 nslookup.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 49152 Oct 31 16:15 nsupdate.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11776 Oct 31 16:15 rndc-confgen.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20480 Oct 31 16:15 rndc.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2682880 Dec 2 2006 vcredist_x86.exe
> Maybe there's an easy path for those who don't have the luxury of
> working in an environment where dig is just part of the furniture.
> I don't know, because I have that luxury. If there is, I'ld like
> to be made aware of it, so that instead of projecting the image of
> an "I-know-better dig snob", I can give practical advice to people
> stuck with nslookup.
>
> Pointers welcome; thanks in advance.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Niall O'Reilly
> University College Dublin IT Services
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