Contained in this archive are the DNS query tools 'dig' and 'nslookup'
from the bind-4.9.3-beta17 archive, adapted to AmigaOS and AmiTCP.

I compiled them last summer but had never the time to polish them
enough (IMO) for a release on Aminet. Due to some demand on Usenet
and IRC I have now put together the binaries for those who would like
to try them.

Installation:

  copy bin/#? TO AmiTCP:bin
  copy help/#? TO AmiTCP:help
  ; only if the whois-service is unknown
  type db/services.add >> AmiTCP:db/services

missing features:

  - I never checked the necessary stack size, 16384 works for me,
    less may give you trouble.

  - nslookup doesn't allow a ':' in filenames for the ls command:

      ls some.domain.org. > RAM:foobar

    but this happens also with the UNIX nslookup I have. If you make
    the appropriate changes to the (f)lex input file commands.l, let
    me know.

  - The binaries contain debug information (line), so FindHit may say
    something useful. Strip them to save about 100KB.

  - rather big executables, even if stripped. The programs include
    their own resolver functions (res_send, etc.), since those inside
    AmiTCP are not accessible.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                65352  125044  52.3% -lh5- 8cda Apr 28  1996 dnstools/bin/dig
[generic]                68685  136988  50.1% -lh5- 1c14 Apr 28  1996 dnstools/bin/nslookup
[generic]                 9670   17456  55.4% -lh5- ced0 Apr 28  1996 dnstools/bin/whois
[generic]                   26      26 100.0% -lh0- aff5 Apr 28  1996 dnstools/db/services.add
[generic]                  784    1353  57.9% -lh5- 291d Apr 28  1996 dnstools/dnstools.readme
[generic]                 5130   15694  32.7% -lh5- c7c6 Apr 28  1996 dnstools/help/dig.0
[generic]                 4479   15212  29.4% -lh5- a7c9 Apr 28  1996 dnstools/help/nslookup.0
[generic]                  818    1702  48.1% -lh5- 5195 Apr 28  1996 dnstools/help/nslookup.help
[generic]                  660    1393  47.4% -lh5- 4d34 Apr 28  1996 dnstools/help/whois.0
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         9 files  155604  314868  49.4%            Apr 29  1996