unable to get a nslookup on windows client

[Danny Mayer]

Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> On 20 Nov 2007, at 22:08, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 
>> Short version (not that I'm famous for being terse): nslookup sucks.
> 
> 	Yes, but ...
> 
> 	When I try to explain this, my colleagues who live mainly (or even
> 	exclusively) in the MS Windows environment tell me, "nslookup is
> 	all there is".  Installing BIND, just to have dig on their machines,
> 	seems to have too high a (perceived) cost.

While you don't have to install BIND9, dig needs almost all of the DLL's
in the kit. The exception being the bindevt.dll file (and some of the
MSV*.DLL that MS owns). A better solution is for MS to include some
version of dig in their O/S delivery.

Danny