dnsquery for Solaris

[Stacey Jonathan Marshall]

On 03/10/10 11:59, Chris Thompson wrote:
> On Mar 10 2010, Sam Wilson wrote:
>
>> 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).
>
> Yes, I did overestimate how long it's been there. (Also, of course, some
> people will exclude/remove package SUNWbind so that they can use the same
> path names for their own BIND installations.)
>
> But if you are still using Solaris 8 or earlier... well it's not quite
> as bad as still running BIND 8. Not *quite* ... :-)
>
For what its worth, with vintage support patch install BIND 9 dig is 
supplied in /usr/lib/dns/dig (yes, /usr/lib - sorry about that).

Stace