nslookup for W98?

[Michael E. Hanson]

Its been a little while since I installed the NT Port of BIND from ISC.org,
but when I did, it included NT ports of all the standard tools, including
nslookup and dig.  The version of nslookup it included I successfully used
on Win98 for quite a while.  The last version I installed was 4.9.7 (same
one provided by Larry Kahn), but I understand they have continued that
support into 8.x, and as long as they've built the executable as a Win32
executable it should run on Win98 with no trouble.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Yardley" <william+dns at hq.newdream.net>
To: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: nslookup for W98?


>
> Hans Vlems wrote:
> > It's extremely bad form to follow up your own post but I feel there's
> > no choice left here.  I just finished setting up a bind server at
> > home. Now I haven't got that many systems at home, and I just wanted
> > to test the new DNS server from my W98 box.  It can boot W98, WNT,
> > W2000AS and two flavors of unix, but for some reason my family tends
> > to boot W98 only.
>
> > If you're familiar with nslookup then there's no reason to learn
> > another tool, provided nslookup is available.  In my innocence I
> > assumed that some kind soul had ported nslookup to W98.  Apparently
> > that's not the case, right?
>
> if you don't feel it's overkill, you could certainly install cygwin and
> then compile nslookup if there isn't already a win32 port somewhere.
> someone did comment that there's a win32 port of bind8 somewhere, so you
> might be able to get the utilities from that to work (sorry -  i don't
> remember where that was).
>
> cywin is really easy to install, or at least it was the time i tried it.
> assuming you're relatively knowledgable about *nix it shouldn't be hard
> to compile the necessary utilities.
>
> as far as learning another tool, there are some lists (in the archives)
> of why nslookup is Bad - you might want to look at those and then try to
> find a version of dig / host for win98.
>
> honestly when i'm stuck using windows i usually just ssh to a *nix
> machine (in putty or securecrt or whatever) and do the lookups from
> there, so if you have access to a shell account anywhere this is
> probably the simplest solution.
>
> w
>
> --
> Sintax error in config file! (line 378)
> aborted!
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