It's great that this works. I'll do it this way. The directions I was trying to follow were about how to take the *binary* for Windows and use it directly.
John René Berber-2 wrote: > > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cygwin-DNS-lookup-utility-tp17720154p17766299.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
