BIND Utilities-9.2.3

BIND Utilities is not a separate package, it is a collection of the client side programs that are included with BIND-9.2.3. The BIND package includes client side programs such as nslookup, dig and host. If you install BIND server, these programs will be installed automatically. This section is for those users who don't need the complete BIND server, but need these client side applications.

Install BIND Utilities by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make -C lib/dns &&
make -C lib/isc &&
make -C bin/dig &&
make -C bin/dig install

make -C lib/...

Build the libs that are needed for the client programs.

make -C bin/dig

Build the client programs.

The BIND Utilities package contains dig, host and nslookup.