On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Steve Coleman wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> >You can use the binaries from the precompiled win32 BIND packages from
> >ISC. They're not cygwin aware, but since they're ports from a unix-like
> >environment you can hardly tell the difference.
>
> For the client side command line there is also
> "/cygdrive/C/WINNT/system32/NSLOOKUP.EXE" on some Win32 OS's but because
> it is not Cygwin aware you can not use it in a pipe, popen, perl
> open(X,"cmd |"), or by greping the stdout for the desired patterns
> within a script.
Huh?
$ type -a nslookup
nslookup is /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/nslookup
$ nslookup cygwin.com 128.122.128.2 | grep cygwin
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: cygwin.com
$ nslookup cygwin.com 128.122.128.2 2>&1 | grep cygwin
Name: cygwin.com
$ perl -e '$a="cygwin.com"; $s="128.122.128.2"; open FILE,"nslookup $a $s|";
while(<FILE>){print if /cygwin.com/}; close FILE;'
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: cygwin.com
$ [pechtcha:~] uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 pechtcha 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
$
> I hve been looking for something to do a little scripting of my custom
> dynamic DNS updates at home and found the perl Net::DNS package
> yesterday, but alas, installing via CPAN.pm it failed some of its tests.
> I'll have to look into this package a little more when I have the time.
There must be something wrong with your system, 'cause it sure does work
for me...
Igor
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