nslookup for W98?

[Danny Mayer]

At 10:27 PM 9/13/01, Laurence Kahn wrote:


>In reply to 13 Sep message from Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net>:
> >>
> >>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
>
>
>NO MY VERSION OF 4.98 WILL run under windows 98 

I was talking about BIND 8.

>and there are separeate nslookup etc. that will run without having to run named.
nslookup has nothing to do with running named.  You run it against any
nameserver.

         Danny