NetDig 1.6 with interactive mode

[William Stacey]

New version of NetDig (1.6) is at www.mvptools.com. Thanks to Kevin and
Ace for feedback and feature requests. Kevin asked for a "small" feature of
an interactive mode like nslookup. If you like nslookup, you will feel at
home. In interactive mode, you can also set the prompt to "$domain" to give
you visual feedback of the current domain your querying against. Also can
query using "hostname type" and not have to use set each time you want to
change type. command line and interative also automatically convert IP
address to in-addr.arpa format if RRType is set to PTR, so you don't
need -x, just enter IP and use ptr type. Give it a spin and let me know of
any other features or fixes. Cheers!

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

New version of NetDig (1.6) is at www.mvptools.com. Thanks to Kevin
and Ace for feedback and feature requests. Kevin asked for a "small"
feature of an interactive mode like nslookup. If you like nslookup,
you will feel at home. In interactive mode, you can also set the
prompt to "$domain" to give you visual feedback of the current domain
your querying against. Also can query using "hostname type" and not
have to use set each time you want to change type. command line and
interative also automatically convert IP address to in-addr.arpa
format if RRType is set to PTR, so you don't
need -x, just enter IP and use ptr type. Give it a spin and let me
know of any other features or fixes. Cheers!

Interactive mode? Awesome! Thanks Kevin for the suggestion and thanks
William for implementing it!

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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory

 

[William Stacey]

We'll get this thing right yet Thanks Ace and thanks for your
suggestion of the /export switch. You will notice that is in there too.

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

In William Stacey <[email protected]> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
: New version of NetDig (1.6) is at www.mvptools.com. Thanks to Kevin
: and Ace for feedback and feature requests. Kevin asked for a "small"
: feature of an interactive mode like nslookup. If you like nslookup,
: you will feel at home. In interactive mode, you can also set the
: prompt to "$domain" to give you visual feedback of the current domain
: your querying against. Also can query using "hostname type" and not
: have to use set each time you want to change type. command line and
: interative also automatically convert IP address to in-addr.arpa
: format if RRType is set to PTR, so you don't
: need -x, just enter IP and use ptr type. Give it a spin and let me
: know of any other features or fixes. Cheers!

William this is great, I LIKE IT! Thanks for integrating the options gonna
save me some huntin 'n peckin'
I hope I didn't out you through too much, but this is going to get me away
from nslookup for sure. I hated having to type in all the commands and
options every time I did a query with Dig.

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

I agree!!

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Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory

 

[William Stacey]

Thanks guys. I know there will be things here and there, just drop me a
note when you think of it. Someone from ms sent me an email and said the
Usage was very confusing. I tried to keep with standards I saw in ping,
nslookup, dnscmd, netsh, etc. Most are all different.

 

[William Stacey]

....So let me know about Usage and argument names and help, etc. What have
you been wanting to do with dig or nslookup, but could not? I you can, give
me them now, while I am "close" to the code. Cause in a few days, I'll
forget what the heck I was doing and why ;-)

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

In William Stacey <[email protected]> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
: ...So let me know about Usage and argument names and help, etc. What
: have you been wanting to do with dig or nslookup, but could not? I
: you can, give me them now, while I am "close" to the code. Cause in
: a few days, I'll forget what the heck I was doing and why ;-)
:

Ha ha ha, been there done that got the T-shirt too ROFL

It took me a little bit to pick up on the arguments and options. You did
what i wanted, in good fashion. You'll have to get Jonathan's approval on it
(just kidding), I had to take a poke, if I spot anything more I'll send it
to you.
Like I said, the only thing I would like better is if it was natively
trusted by Windows, instead of using .NET Framework to set trust. I've given
it full trust and can't complain.

 

[William Stacey]

<g> I could be wrong, but I think you should only have to mess with the
security if you run from a network drive. If local drive, it should run
with default levels. If that is not the case, please let me know as I would
be interested in that. I too would like to have compiled that into an
image. But, at least for now, that is what we have with .Net. If I had to
do it in c++, I probably would have not even tried it. Gotta love managed
code. Cheers!