nslookup for W98?

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Fri Sep 14 02:13:14 UTC 2001


At 09:21 PM 9/13/01, Michael E. Hanson wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
>Behalf Of Will Yardley
>Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 2:46 PM
>To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
>Subject: Re: nslookup for W98?
>
>
>
>Michael E. Hanson wrote:
> >
> > Its been a little while since I installed the NT Port of BIND from
> > ISC.org, but when I did, it included NT ports of all the standard
> > tools, including nslookup and dig.  The version of nslookup it
> > included I successfully used on Win98 for quite a while.  The last
> > version I installed was 4.9.7 (same one provided by Larry Kahn), but I
> > understand they have continued that support into 8.x, and as long as
> > they've built the executable as a Win32 executable it should run on
> > Win98 with no trouble.
>
>yes - it's been established that the tools are available for NT (in fact
>the tools are available as a separate package for NT).  however this
>person specifically wants them for windoze 98 (which as i understand it
>won't run nt programs).
>
>w
>
>--
>
>You understand it wrong.  Windows 98 will run any NT4.0 program that is not
>multi-threaded or tied to the HAL. nslookup has no reason to be
>multi-threaded or tied to the HAL, and the 4.9.7 version ran quite well
>under Win98.  I'm only suggesting that he try the current ISC BIND release
>for NT as it contains the same tools, and I'm speculating that they are most
>likely compiled in Win32 mode, as that's the easiest and most reliable way
>to port these tools.

BIND 8 is indeed compiled in Win32 mode.  I seem to remember however that
dig will not run under win9x.  I don't think anyone has tried nslookup.

>   I am NOT suggesting that the named/resolve services
>would run under Win98

named will NOT run on win9x.



         Danny



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