On one of my linux machines the BIND package is not installed. The Bind package provides a lot of terminal tools like host -v, nslookup, dig, etc. If I want to have shell tools or command-line tools with similar functionality, like say querying the dns servers which are setup in the /etc/resolv.conf file or querying other DNS servers setup in the network configuration what can be used?

Getting BIND installed on that machine would be a pain and lot of hassle.