dnsquery for Solaris

[jcarroll65 at cfl.rr.com]

dig was added to Solaris 9. It is not native to Solaris 8 or older.

---- Chris Thompson <cet1 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: 
> On Mar 9 2010, Sam Wilson wrote:
> 
> >In article <mailman.747.1268158060.21153.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
> > "ic.nssip" <ic.nssip at northwestel.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I find it useful to test records cache time.
> >
> >dig tells you that.  
> >
> >> I'll check on BIND 8 package.
> >> Thank you for pointing to a Solaris compatible source.
> >
> >Use dig from a recent BIND package, though you may find it's already 
> >there - ours is in /usr/local/bin/dig on our Solaris systems and was 
> >installed with BIND 9.  I don't know whether it's there if you use the 
> >Solaris-supplied BIND.
> 
> Sure it is:
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/sbin/dig
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin        75208 Jul 29  2008 /usr/sbin/dig
> $ fgrep /usr/sbin/dig /var/sadm/install/contents
> /usr/sbin/dig f none 0555 root bin 75208 48119 1217333315 SUNWbind
> 
> (that's a 9.3.5-P1 dig, from a not very up-to-date Solaris 10 installation,
> but it's been around in Solaris distributions much longer than that).
> 
> -- 
> Chris Thompson               University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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