dnsquery for Solaris

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, ic.nssip wrote:

> Can somebody suggest a place where from I can download dnsquery source/pkg
> to make it work on Solaris 10?

It is available in old BIND 8 source.

> I have it installed on a FreeBSD machine but imported to Solaris is
> reporting some syntax error
>  
> # dnsquery www.google.com
> dnsquery: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected

FreeBSD executables don't run on Solaris.

Instead of dnsquery, can you use dig or host instead?