dnsquery for Solaris

Sam Wilson Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk
Wed Mar 10 10:37:06 UTC 2010


In article <mailman.750.1268169970.21153.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 <jcarroll65 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

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

That would explain why it's only where Chris found it on some of our 
range of Solarises (vintage or only slightly worn).

> ---- Chris Thompson <cet1 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: 
> > On Mar 9 2010, Sam Wilson wrote:
> > 
> > ...  I don't know whether [dig is] there [/usr/local/bin] 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).

Sam



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