ISC dig & host

To get dig and host on Windows...

• Download the latest from https://www.isc.org/download/
  • Click on BIND 9 and click the Download button by the Current-Stable version (or the dev one if you feel adventurous).
• Unzip the archive and copy the following files to the location of your choice.
  • dig.exe
  • host.exe
  • libbind9.dll
  • libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll
  • libdns.dll
  • libirs.dll
  • libisc.dll
  • libisccfg.dll
  • libuv.dll
  • libxml2.dll
• Whatever folder you put them in needs to be in the path so if it's not then you'll need to add it.
  • Note: I keep all my scripts and CLI stuff in C:\Users\USERNAME\bin so I just dropped them there.
  • Hit the WIN key and type "environment". You should see "Edit the system environment variables" pretty quickly, click that.
  • At the bottom of the Systems Properties dialog is a button labelled Environment Variables, click that.
  • Double-click the Path variable and add your new folder.
• Open a command prompt and try out the dig and host commands and they should be working.
• If you want .digrc to work then add a variable named HOME that points at the folder where .digrc lives.
  • .digrc is a text file with options for dig. You should put +noall +answer in it. 😊
  • Since it's named HOME I pointed it at my home directory (usually C:\Users\USERNAME), put .digrc in there and then hid the file so it didn't add to the files I had to look at to find things.