Re: Installing bind on Windows 10

2022-09-09 Thread Crist Clark
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is easy enough to install. BIND, tools included, will run just fine in there. On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 7:35 AM Brown, William wrote: > After I hit send, I thought I should add this request to ISC: > > > > Can you keep supporting dig (and perhaps other select tools

Re: Installing bind on Windows 10

2022-09-09 Thread Ahmad Ibrahim
Thanks for your reply William. Unfortunately I won't be able to commit to be honest. I typically use the *nix flavors myself and only was experimenting with the windows utility. If my situation changes or have more bandwidth it would be something nifty to help out with. On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 10:3

Re: Installing bind on Windows 10

2022-09-09 Thread Ondřej Surý
No, the tools and named use the same internal libraries, so it doesn’t help to have “just tools”. You can keep using the last version of dig.exe, nobody can take this from you. It’s very unlikely that there will be serious security vulnerability (RCE) in dig. Ondřej -- Ondřej Surý — ISC (He/Hi

Re: Installing bind on Windows 10

2022-09-09 Thread Danny Mayer
I wrote the Windows BIND installer to install the BIND daemon (named) as a service with minimum privileges. It creates a service account with minimum privileges if the service account does not already exist. It was never intended to install tools. You don't need the installer if you only want d

RE: Installing bind on Windows 10

2022-09-09 Thread Brown, William
After I hit send, I thought I should add this request to ISC: Can you keep supporting dig (and perhaps other select tools) on Windows? Some of us are forced to use Windows workstations while the servers run some *nix flavor. -- William Brown WNYRIC/Erie 1 BOCES 716-821-7285 Email and Spam Fi

RE: Installing bind on Windows 10

2022-09-09 Thread Brown, William
The service account is to run BIND as a DNS server. Click the box to install tools only. Add the directory containing the extracted files to you path in Windows to make life easier. -- William Brown WNYRIC/Erie 1 BOCES 716-821-7285 Email and Spam Filtering Please reach out to exchgt...@e1b.o

Re: Installing bind on Windows 10

2022-09-09 Thread Walter H. via bind-users
On 09.09.2022 05:31, Ahmad Ibrahim wrote: /Hello I'm working installing an equivalent to dig on windows and stumbled upon the following site: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/dig-windows/ use this:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bacxWTAWiVQ (instruction with link to ISC BIND) /During the inst