Comments on: Getting DIG to work on Windows

By: MrT

MrT — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:55:12 +0000

I’m not able to get dig to work. Several articles all name the same dlls/exes to put in the desired directory, which I’ve done and confirmed. But when I run it, I get

“The system cannot execute the specified program.”

This error is reported to be caused by missing DLL dependencies, but I can’t find any info on dependencies for DIG. I tried registering a couple of the DLLs but that errors out (but I thought the first run of dig.exe would cause them to self-register anyway).

It’s also not a path problem. And as of v9, resolv.conf isn’t required.

Any ideas? Anyone? (I can’t find a suitable forum at ISC for this, either.)

By: eprosenx

eprosenx — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:51:38 +0000

@jamkomo I did that a long time ago the first time I installed DIG on Windows, but since then it seems to have "just worked". I think it reads the system DNS servers as the default if that file does not exist. -Eric

By: jamkomo

jamkomo — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:46:05 +0000

Did you put your company’s nameservers in \windows\system32\drivers\etc?

By: don

don — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:50:30 +0000

Good how-to. Thanks