unable to get a nslookup on windows client
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Sat Nov 24 20:36:43 UTC 2007
Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> 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.
While you don't have to install BIND9, dig needs almost all of the DLL's
in the kit. The exception being the bindevt.dll file (and some of the
MSV*.DLL that MS owns). A better solution is for MS to include some
version of dig in their O/S delivery.
Danny
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