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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Dig command output? Post 302160259 by sysgate on Monday 21st of January 2008 08:54:24 AM
Old 01-21-2008
One of my favorite utilities Smilie
use case : "dig any @NS1.GOOGLE.COM GOOGLE.COM" where :
dig - name of binary;
any - type of record to query;
@name.server - which Name Server to query
domain.com - domain name that you are interested in;
The above command will produce the following output :
Quote:
[root@dnssrv]# dig any @NS1.GOOGLE.COM GOOGLE.COM

; <<>> DiG 9.3.3rc2 <<>> any @NS1.GOOGLE.COM GOOGLE.COM
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31659
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 7

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;GOOGLE.COM. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
GOOGLE.COM. 10800 IN MX 10 smtp1.GOOGLE.COM.
GOOGLE.COM. 10800 IN MX 10 smtp2.GOOGLE.COM.
GOOGLE.COM. 10800 IN MX 10 smtp3.GOOGLE.COM.
GOOGLE.COM. 10800 IN MX 10 smtp4.GOOGLE.COM.
GOOGLE.COM. 300 IN A 72.14.207.99
GOOGLE.COM. 300 IN A 64.233.187.99
GOOGLE.COM. 300 IN A 64.233.167.99
GOOGLE.COM. 300 IN TXT "v=spf1 include:_netblocks.google.com ~all"
GOOGLE.COM. 345600 IN NS ns1.GOOGLE.COM.
GOOGLE.COM. 345600 IN NS ns2.GOOGLE.COM.
GOOGLE.COM. 345600 IN NS ns3.GOOGLE.COM.
GOOGLE.COM. 345600 IN NS ns4.GOOGLE.COM.
GOOGLE.COM. 86400 IN SOA ns1.GOOGLE.COM. dns-admin.GOOGLE.COM. 2008011602 7200 1800 1209600 300

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
GOOGLE.COM. 345600 IN NS ns1.GOOGLE.COM.
GOOGLE.COM. 345600 IN NS ns2.GOOGLE.COM.
GOOGLE.COM. 345600 IN NS ns3.GOOGLE.COM.
GOOGLE.COM. 345600 IN NS ns4.GOOGLE.COM.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
smtp1.GOOGLE.COM. 3600 IN A 72.14.203.25
smtp2.GOOGLE.COM. 3600 IN A 64.233.167.25
smtp3.GOOGLE.COM. 3600 IN A 64.233.183.25
smtp4.GOOGLE.COM. 3600 IN A 72.14.215.25
ns1.GOOGLE.COM. 345600 IN A 216.239.32.10
ns2.GOOGLE.COM. 345600 IN A 216.239.34.10
ns3.GOOGLE.COM. 345600 IN A 216.239.36.10

;; Query time: 35 msec
;; SERVER: 216.239.32.10#53(216.239.32.10)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan 21 05:52:05 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 504
 

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