With the config below, I have ‘host’, ‘dig’, and ‘nslookup’ in my
path. Note that I'm using the ‘(compose list
specification->package+output)’ form, though. If you're not using that,
you may be accidentally loading the ‘bind’ package with the default
‘out’ output, instead of the ‘utils’ one. If that's the case, then
you're not going to have the utils in your PATH because they haven't
been installed.

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;; Testing whether ‘bind:utils’ gets installed in the path (see: #62698)

(use-modules (gnu)
             (gnu system setuid))
(use-package-modules networking)

(operating-system
  (locale "en_US.utf8")
  (timezone "America/New_York")
  (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "us"))
  (host-name "wireshark-test")

  (users (cons* (user-account
                 (name "test")
                 (group "users")
                 (password (crypt "test" "$6$test")))
                %base-user-accounts))
  (packages
   (cons*
    ((compose list specification->package+output) "bind:utils")
    %base-packages))

  (bootloader
   (bootloader-configuration
    (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
    (targets '("/boot/efi"))
    (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))

  (file-systems
   (cons* (file-system
            (mount-point "/")
            (device
             (uuid "14f4e958-be9e-41bb-bd25-e90a7330093c"
                   'btrfs))
            (type "btrfs"))
          (file-system
            (mount-point "/boot/efi")
            (device (uuid "6866-56B1" 'fat32))
            (type "vfat"))
          %base-file-systems)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Running with ‘sh -c $(guix system vm --no-graphic
bind-utils-config.scm)’:

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GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main thread
GC Warning: Couldn't read /proc/stat
Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile.
Use 'gnu.repl' for an initrd REPL.

loading kernel modules...
loading '/gnu/store/z0w00ijl944lzc263gzaw17wmlg7k08f-system/boot'...
making '/gnu/store/z0w00ijl944lzc263gzaw17wmlg7k08f-system' the current system...
setting up setuid programs in '/run/setuid-programs'...
populating /etc from /gnu/store/rs296i8fpqx2gvy8w0za9wyd1spgmy2k-etc...
Please wait while gathering entropy to generate the key pair;
this may take time...
[    2.966863] udevd[75]: no sender credentials received, message ignored
[    3.306595] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...
nscd: 99 monitoring file `/etc/hosts` (1)
nscd: 99 monitoring directory `/etc` (2)
nscd: 99 monitoring file `/etc/resolv.conf` (3)
nscd: 99 monitoring directory `/etc` (2)
nscd: 99 monitoring file `/etc/services` (4)
nscd: 99 monitoring directory `/etc` (2)
nscd: 99 monitoring file `/etc/nsswitch.conf` (5)
nscd: 99 monitoring directory `/etc` (2)
nscd: 99 monitoring file `/etc/nsswitch.conf` (5)
nscd: 99 monitoring directory `/etc` (2)


This is the GNU system.  Welcome.
wireshark-test login: test
Password:
This is the GNU operating system, welcome!

test@wireshark-test ~$ which host
/run/current-system/profile/bin/host
test@wireshark-test ~$ which dig
/run/current-system/profile/bin/dig
test@wireshark-test ~$ which nslookup
/run/current-system/profile/bin/nslookup
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