Steve wrote: > I noticed that dig was not in my cygwin at work ( win2k box ). > > I didn't see it on the page brought up on the "software" link on the > cygwin web site. > > Googling around I saw a windows port that looked a bit different. I > also found some *old* usenet posts about having to compile it yourself. > > I just learned about this tool. > > Before I use the other options above I thought I would ask if dig is in > cygwin but rolled into another package under another name.
I don't belive dig is included in any Cygwin package. But ISC BIND supports windows and one of the downloads you can get is the set of command-line tools, which includes dig. So just install that somewhere in the path and you're good to go. At least that's what I do. Brian -- 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/