dig and nslookup don't work

[René Berber]

On 3/9/2026 2:38 AM, Joel Strasser via Cygwin wrote:

> I recently reinstalled Cygwin on Windows 11.
> 
> I added the bind-utils package to get the dig command.
> 
> The command does not produce any output.
> 
> I tried to reinstall the package and even reinstalled Cygwin.
> 
> I included a cygcheck.out and the strace output of dig.

strace shows the problem, and it is something installed in your system 
that is not part of Cygwin.  Probably a security package that injects a 
"security" library:

 From dig_strace.txt

--- Process 48772 created
--- Process 48772 loaded C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll at 00007ffc57f70000
--- Process 48772 loaded C:\Windows\System32\hmpalert.dll at 
00007ffc54ae0000  <------- injects itself immediately
--- Process 48772 loaded C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll at 
00007ffc55dd0000
...
--- Process 48772 (pid: 649) thread 49216 created
--- Process 48772 (pid: 649), exception 80000001 at 00007ffc54aee296
________________________________________^^^^^^^^____^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                         STATUS_GUARD_PAGE_VIOLATION

If it is an anti-virus maybe create an exception?

There's nothing Cygwin can do against other (injected) libraries.
-- 
R.B.