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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Playing with whois & dig - getting all the a records (globally) Post 302869297 by coolatt on Wednesday 30th of October 2013 04:21:44 AM
Old 10-30-2013
Debian Playing with whois & dig - getting all the a records (globally)

Dear All,

I want to get all the IPs of the A RECORDS for mail.google.com.
The aim is to deny access to these IPs.
I learnt that mail.google.com has several IPs.

I did the following steps:
1. whois google.com
2. I got the following as its DOMAIN SERVERS:
Quote:
ns3.google.com
ns2.google.com
ns1.google.com
ns4.google.com
3.# dig @ns1.google.com a mail.google.com

Code:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
mail.google.com.    0    IN    CNAME    googlemail.l.google.com.
googlemail.l.google.com. 300    IN    A    74.125.233.86
googlemail.l.google.com. 300    IN    A    74.125.233.85

I thought this would give me all the IPs.Smilie

Currently, in an attempt to get the other IPs I am digging 4.2.2.2 & other free public dns servers..

someone please explain to me why
Code:
dig @ns1.google.com  a mail.google.com

does not give the full list & how other FreeDNS servers are getting different IPs?
 

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WHOIS(1)							 Debian GNU/Linux							  WHOIS(1)

NAME
whois - client for the whois directory service SYNOPSIS
whois [ -h HOST ] [ -p PORT ] [ -aCFHlLMmrRSVx ] [ -g SOURCE:FIRST-LAST ] [ -i ATTR ] [ -S SOURCE ] [ -T TYPE ] object whois [ -t ] [ -v ] template whois [ -q ] keyword DESCRIPTION
whois searches for an object in a RFC 3912 database. This version of the whois client tries to guess the right server to ask for the specified object. If no guess can be made it will connect to whois.networksolutions.com for NIC handles or whois.arin.net for IPv4 addresses and network names. OPTIONS
-h HOST Connect to HOST. -H Do not display the legal disclaimers some registries like to show you. -p PORT Connect to PORT. --verbose Be verbose. --help Display online help. Other options are flags understood by RIPE-like servers. NOTES
Please remember that whois.networksolutions.com by default will only search in the domains database. If you want to search for NIC handles you have to prepend a ! character. When you do this, the default server becomes whois.networksolutions.com. When querying whois.arin.net for IPv4 or IPv6 networks, the CIDR netmask length will be automatically removed from the query string. When querying whois.nic.ad.jp for AS numbers, the program will automatically convert the request in the appropriate format, inserting a space after the string AS. When querying whois.denic.de for domain names and no other flags have been specified, the program will automatically add the flag -T dn. When querying whois.dk-hostmaster.dk for domain names and no other flags have been specified, the program will automatically add the flag --show-handles. RIPE-specific command line options are ignored when querying non-RIPE servers. This may or may not be the behaviour intended by the user. When querying a non-standard server, command line options which are not to be interpreted by the client should always follow the -- separa- tor (which marks the beginning of the query string). If the /etc/whois.conf config file exists, it will be consulted to find a server before applying the normal rules. Each line of the file should contain a regular expression to be matched against the query text and the whois server to use, separated by white space. The whois protocol does not specify an encoding for characters which cannot be represented by ASCII and implementations vary wildly. If the program knows that a specific server uses a certain encoding, if needed it will transcode the server output to the encoding specified by the current system locale. Command line arguments will always be interpreted accordingly to the current system locale and converted to the IDN ASCII Compatible Encod- ing. Files /etc/whois.conf ENVIRONMENT
LANG When querying whois.nic.ad.jp and whois.jprs.jp english text is requested unless the LANG or LC_MESSAGES environment variables spec- ify a Japanese locale. WHOIS_OPTIONS A list of options which will be evalued before the ones specified on the command line. WHOIS_SERVER This server will be queried if the program cannot guess where some kind of objects are located. If the variable does not exist then whois.arin.net will be queried. SEE ALSO
RFC 3912: WHOIS Protocol Specification RIPE-223: RIPE NCC Database Documentation Detailed help on available flags can be found in RIPE-223 or in the help file which can be obtained with the command: whois -h whois.ripe.net HELP BUGS
The program may have buffer overflows in the command line parser: be sure to not pass untrusted data to it. It should be rewritten to use a dynamics strings library. HISTORY
This program closely tracks the user interface of the whois client developed at RIPE by Ambrose Magee and others on the base of the origi- nal BSD client. I also added support for the protocol extensions developed by David Kessens of QWest for the 6bone server. AUTHOR
Whois and this man page were written by Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> and are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, ver- sion 2 or higher. Marco d'Itri 20 December 2009 WHOIS(1)
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