Fritz said, and others discussed: - > I am thinking of replacing Net::DNS::Resolver by dig commands? > Is this too much hassle for the windows folks?
IMO, it can be argued that there is only one "official" version of dig for Windows - that which forms part of BIND 9 from http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind9.php. The link to pigtail is the same version. Thus, one doesn't need to worry too much about supporting multiple versions. As an aside, I looked long and hard for a "real" Windows version of whois. I found nothing that actually worked as expected - lots of half-implemented versions, but nothing that could execute all the commands in exactly the same way. Thanks, I'll try the pigtail version. I've been running BIND on my Windows servers since around 1996 - starting with BIND 4 on a '486 running NT4, and currently run the BIND version of dig on my laptop, BTW. The point about dealing with "external" packages / executables is a valid one. However, when one considers that as it is, one has to install several (Perl) packages that don't come with the standard ActiveState distribution, this is perhaps less of an issue. It seems to me that if Net::DNS::Resolver doesn't work, then we have four choices: - 1 Wait for someone to fix it 2 Fix it ourselves 3 Use an alternative 4 Live without the functionality it provides Fritz is proposing alternative (3), which seems reasonable in the circumstances. If an ASSP user doesn't install dig, he doesn't get the functions that it provides. If we don't use dig, no one gets the functionality. If the functionality is valuable, the choice is obvious. Kind regards, William Stucke ZAnet Internet Services (Pty) Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 083-308-0700 - WFS 074-333-0109 - Office 086-502-9444 - Fax http://www.zanet.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
