dnsquery for Solaris

[ic.nssip]

I find it useful to test records cache time.

I'll check on BIND 8 package.
Thank you for pointing to a Solaris compatible source.

Julian


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <jreed at isc.org>
To: "ic.nssip" <ic.nssip at northwestel.net>
Cc: <bind-users at lists.isc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: dnsquery for Solaris


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?