Window NT/2000 implementation of BIND8 Tools Date: 31-Jan-2002. This is a release of BIND 8 Tools for Windows NT/2000 systems. This release has undergone a fair amount of testing. While I have cleaned up all of the NT-specific issues and bugs that I know about, you should report any issues to the bind-users@isc.org mailing list. DNS Tools Kit Installation Information Unpack the kit into any convenient directory and run the tools. Note that libbind.dll should be in the same directory or the system32 directory to work. It's preferable to keep them in the same directory as the tools. The tools will NOT run on Win9x, only WinNT and Win2000. About the Tools I have built versions of the following tools for Windows NT/2000: dig, nslookup and host. If you wish to use the tools on another NT/2000 system you can copy the tools along with the libbind.dll to that other system and run them there. Please be aware that the tools MUST retrieve a nameserver IP address in order to work. There is a specific order that will be used to find the addresses. The order is as follows: it will look for the resolv.conf file in system32\Drivers\etc and try to open and read that file. Only if no nameserver IP Address has been found will it use the registry settings to obtain a nameserver IP Address. The main implication of this is that the DNS Tools MAY behave differently on a system running named than on one NOT running named, depending on a) whether or not you have customized resolv.conf and b) have moved the nameserver to a different system but not modified resolv.conf. Known Problems On Windows 2000 the tools may fail to work because they need a nameserver IP address and the file resolv.conf which lists the nameserver IP addresses may not exist in the system32\Drivers\etc directory. Since the location of the list in the Windows registry has changed, the resolver cannot find the list. The workaround is to create the resolv.conf file. Windows NT 4.0 does not have this problem and will work without the resolv.conf file. Danny Mayer mayer@gis.net