WARNING: This information has not been updated since October, 1997!

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Name: dig - Queries DNS name servers

Version: 8.8

Author(s): P. Vixie <paul@vix.com>    - maintains current distribution
           S. Hotz  <hotz@isi.edu>    - original dig author
           A. Cherenson <arc@sgi.com> - nslookup functions used by dig

Ftp source: ftp.isc.org:/isc/bind/
            (part of BIND distribution)


Description:

   Dig (domain information groper) is a flexible command line tool which
   can be used to gather information from the Domain Name System servers.
   Dig has two modes: simple interactive mode which makes a single query,
   and batch which executes a query for each in a list of several query
   lines. All query options are accessible from the command line.

   -- quoted from the man page by Steve Hotz in the dig.2.0 distribution

Advertised architectures:

   The included 2.0.1 distribution (dig.tar) is somewhat dated and only
   explicitly supports a small numer of systems (sun3, sparc, vax,
   microvax, and IBM RT).  Current 2.2 version (ftp-able with BIND)
   has been more widely ported.

   Architectures for BIND 4.9.4 distribution (dig version 2.2):

   Linux, NetBSD, BSD4.4, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, other net2-alikes,
   DEC AXP OSF/1 (Version 2.1 and earlier), CRAY, irix4, irix5, UNIXWARE,
   DEC AXP OSF/1 (Version 3.0 and after), sunos4.x, solaris2.x/sunos5.x,
   AIX3, hpux7.0, hpux8.0, hpux9.0, ULTRIX, other 4.[23]bsd-alikes, epix,
   NEC EWS4800 EWS-UX/V (Rel4.0/Rel4.2,UX/4800), Mips RISC/os 4.52,
   SCO Unix 3.4.2, ODT (3.0 using gcc), apollo domainos, Pyramid dcosx,
   NeXTstep 2.0ff (single architecture make), Sequent Dynix/PTX, dgux,
   NeXTstep 3.3 (Multi Architecture Binaries), ConvexOS-10.x,
   Esix SVR4.0.4 (using gcc), ISC4.0 (using GCC), AUX 3.1.1 (3.x ??)
   NCR System V/MLS

   -- as enumerated in BIND 4.9.4 Makefile

Prerequisites: C compiler

Note: 

   Included with dig is doc-2.0.    Doc (domain obscenity
   control) is a program which diagnoses misbehaving domains by
   sending queries off to the appropriate DNS nameservers, and
   performing simple analysis on the responses.  It consists of
   shell and awk scripts that require dig.
 
Updated note:

    - Old version (2.0) of 'doc' is mentioned in the dig index entry.
      'doc' is also updated and currently maintained by someone else;
      Brad Knowles <brad@his.com> <bknowles@aol.net>