Using Native dig in Windows.

Using native "dig" command in Windows

2. Install it, with the toolbox "Tools Only" checked. Everything else unchecked. Make sure the target directory is somewhere you actually want it to go - and somewhere you remember, you'll need to append it to your path settings.

1. Grab the "Current-Stable" Windows release from here.

If you'd like to have a native version of "dig" on your Windows machine, ISC has made it quite simple.

3. Now open your "System Properties" -> "Environment Variables" and click on the "path" variable. You're going to append where you installed the tools, inside the bin directory. Since I put mine in C:\dig I'm going to be appending "C:\dig\bin\".

Note: make sure you're separating other elements in your path with the proper value, a ";" in this case.

4. Open a command prompt, and you will now be able to utilize all the tools included in the BIND distribution, including dig. (Other utilities include "host", and "nslookup".)

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