Re: Cygwin DNS lookup utility

["René Berber" <r.berber@computer.org>]

jtriedl wrote:

> LOL.  I should have mentioned that I checked all the obvious permission
> things, and they're all what one would expect:
> 
> (riedl-ibm-x40: /) ll /usr/bin/nslookup.exe
> 60K -rwxr-xr-x 1 riedl Users 60K Jun 10 10:23 /usr/bin/nslookup.exe*
> (riedl-ibm-x40: /) ll /usr/bin/dig.exe
> 72K -rwxr-xr-x 1 riedl Users 72K Jun 10 10:23 /usr/bin/dig.exe*
> (riedl-ibm-x40: /)
> 
> I was speculating that the permission was some windows restriction on
> sending low-level name service requests, but I was hoping someone on this
> list would know more.

ISC's BIND works fine out of the box (no "instructions" followed).  No 
real answer to your question, my guess is that you did something wrong 
(like follow "instructions" for a Microsoft compiler or build in a weird 
file system, not NTFS, perhaps a network share or NFS mounted with no 
execute permission).

$ tar xvf bind-9.5.0.tar.gz
$ cd bind-9.5.0
$ ./configure --enable-threads --with-openssl=yes --with-libtool
$ make
$ make install
$ which dig
/usr/local/bin/dig
$ dig smbserver

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0 <<>> smbserver
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 52334
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;smbserver.                     IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       8267    IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 
NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2008061000 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 9 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 10 16:25:37 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 102
-- 
René Berber


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