dig is a command-line client to make queries against DNS servers, the Internet name servers.
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Retrieve all A records for a given domain name [duplicate]
Is it possible using dig or any other tool to get all DNS A records, specifically subdomains for a given domain?
Thanks.
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Google Public DNS is returning a SERVFAIL for my domain
Hope some one will help me in resolving the issue. My Domain name is "prohosterz.com"
Google Public DNS is returning a SERVFAIL for my domain:
$ dig prohosterz.com @8.8.8.8
; > DiG 9.9.2 > ...
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Dig Connection Error on SRV Records
Using Bind9 running on localhost.
I have two records in my DNS zone file:
_kerberos._udp.GROUP-42.SNOOPY.ISP IN SRV 0 0 88 kirby.group-42.snoopy.isp.
kirby.group-42.snoopy.isp. IN A ...
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What's the difference between `dig` and `host` when querying a specific name-server?
I was using this command to verify if I'd set things up correctly with a DNS provider:
host hostname.example.com ns1.example-nameserver.com
As far as I can tell, this asks ...
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Linux Terminal dig example -d
I am really having trouble making a post and this question is nowhere asked on the internet and i need to know if it is harmful so i can correct my mistake. I ran the following command in the Linux ...
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nslookup Returning Domain that is a Subdomain of some Default
I'm the owner of a hypothetical domain name, XYZ.com. I have an LXC container setup that exhibits an undesired behavior:
$ nslookup non-existent-domain-12345.com
Name: ...
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Bind reverse ipv6 mapping, dig gives no answer, SERVFAIL
I am using Fedora 17 with Bind 9 installed, trying to configure a DNS and I already solved a problem:
Bind DNS configuration, dig command don't resolve name
Now ipv4 and ipv6 mapping works, ...
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Bind DNS configuration, dig command don't resolve name
I am using Fedora 17 with bind 9.
I tried to manually configure a DNS for a network, editing /etc/named.conf:
options {
listen-on port 53 { localhost; };
listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
directory ...
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DNS searching with wildcards?
Anything like nslookup or dig offer the ability to search based on something contained in the name ... like a wildcard search or something?
I'm trying to make a little script with a GUI wrapper for ...
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Is dig +trace always accurate?
When the accuracy of a DNS cache is in question, dig +trace tends to be the recommended way of determining the authoritative answer for a DNS record. This seems to be particularly useful when also ...
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Is there a drawback to both A and AAAA records in the ADDITIONAL section?
I'm just asking for a possibility of having both ipv4 and ipv6 configurations in one domain.
If I do dig <domain>, inside the ADDITIONAL SECTIONS will display the A and AAAA records.
Are there ...
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“dig … any” shows A record but “dig … a” does not
When using "dig host.name.here.com A" I get SERVFAIL and no answer. But when I do a "dig host.name.here.com ANY" I get NOERROR and it returns an A record.
Any idea as to what may be wrong with the ...
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dig returns ip addresses in differing order?
Pretty basic question here - when I run the command dig mx1.hotmail.com +short
to get the ip addresses of one of hotmail's mail servers, they return the same list with a different order every time. I ...
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Why is nslookup and dig giving me a “Warning: ID mismatch … got 0” error?
I'm trying to troubleshoot some persistent connectivity issues and I'm frequently getting the following error message when using dig or nslookup.
bash$ nslookup
> www.google.com
;; Warning: ID ...
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Testing new nameservers using dig
I have a domain, example.co.uk, and it has its nameservers registered with the registrar as current-nameserver.co.uk. It has a TXT record with value ORIGINAL.
I decide to change DNS providers to ...
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BIND9 as a cache-only nameserver doesn't work
I installed BIND9 via apt-get on a newly installed and completely updated UBUNTU 12.04, virtualized on VirtualBox.
I want to use it as a cache-only nameserver.
named.conf contains only the following ...
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What is the difference of dig results between domain and www.domain
I found a domain name which gives different results for following dig commands. Lets assume the domain name is domain.com.
Commands:
dig domain.com
dig www.domain.com
Is anyone know what are the ...
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Odd DNS behavior on multiple Ubuntu 12.04 VMs. NSlookup and Dig resolves hostname but ping cannot
In attempting to set up a VoIP server, I came across some interesting behavior from Ubuntu.
My VoIP account was assigned a unique hostname that I am to connect to, however, Ubuntu is unable to ...
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Install and use BIND9 as forwarder - step by step
I'd like to install on Ubuntu 12.04 a DNS server using BIND9.
As a first step, I'd just like to configure it as a forwarder for my box only.
This is what I do:
I deactivate dnsmasq editing ...
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Why don't DNS root servers answer?
If I try to query a root server with dig, I never receive an answer.
For example the output for dig @b.root-servers.net www.ubuntu.com is
; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @b.root-servers.net ...
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CentOS 5.8 dig is not resolving ip-address [closed]
I'm running centos 5.8 on a local machine at home. Today I was trying to analyze the DNS-Lookup via dig.
$ dig +trace -t A www.heise.de.
This is giving me something like this as a response
de. ...
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Simple dig output?
In a script I want to be able to write an IP address to somewhere easily, so I thought using dig (or a similar command) with back-ticks.
However the simplest output I've been able to come up to wrt ...
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DNS lookup failure while configuration is okay
I have configured my DNS using OpenPanel and it didn't report any errors. It just adds a DNS config file which is included /etc/bind/named.conf. When I do
named-checkconf /etc/bind/named.conf
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Why can host and nslookup resolve a name but dig cannot?
Can anyone tell me why this is happening? I can resolve a hostname using host and/or nslookup but forward lookups do not work with dig; reverse lookups do:
musashixxx@box:~$ host someserver
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dig @8.8.8.8 not working
I was wondering what could be the reason that
dig @8.8.8.8 stackoverflow.com
fails with a
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
error.
A tracert -p 53 8.8.8.8 worked fine, I ...
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sed replace all tabs and spaces with a single space
I got a string like the following:
test.de. 1547 IN SOA ns1.test.de. dnsmaster.test.de. 2012090701 900 1000 6000 600
now I want to replace all the tabs/spaces inbetween the ...
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dig show only answer
I want dig only to show the answer of my query.
Normally, it prints out alot of additional info like this:
;; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> google.de
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got ...
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Recursive forward a zone in BIND
I have a VPS with BIND set up. It works well for several months.
Recently I want to set up another DNS program to manage foo.example.org subdomain on this VPS. I've setup these in dns.he.net:
...
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DNS resolve timeout on RHEL 6.3 behind firewall
I have a server running Red Hat 6.3 Enterprise inside a VMWare virtual machine. There's a Juniper SSG 5 firewall sitting between the server and the Internet. I'm trying to diagnose what it looks like ...
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NXDOMAIN Issues With .AU.COM Domain
I have registered an .au.com domain name with a domain provider here in Australia and have created successfully a Google Apps email account using the domain (Google Apps have confirmed my MX records ...
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dig does not receive an answer
bind config
zone "minskmag.by" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/named/minskmag.by";
};
zone file
$TTL 3600
@ IN SOA ns1.thestudio.by. root.thestudio.by. (2012041615 10800 ...
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dig: Force resolving without cache
I'm wondering if there is a way to query a DNS server and bypass caching (with dig). Often I change a zone on the DNS server and I want to check if it resolves correctly from my workstation. But since ...
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DNS setup with BIND
I've recently made a server (it's a VPS hosted on a2hosting) by following these instructions: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-6.0-x86_64-ispconfig-3
All is working well, except for ...
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Dig timeout option don't work
dig +time=5 @hii.com hello.me or dig @hii.com hello.me +time=5 won't stop after 5 second. What is the correct way to use this option?
Thank you.
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Concise set of rules for discarding DNS responses, or portion therein
Problem statement
It is possible for any name server on the internet to become "Authoritative" for legitimate, and illegitimate zones.
For example, I can add microsoft.com to my internal name ...
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Combining dig +short command
This command will show the output of MX record:
dig @ns1.myname.com myname.com +short MX
and this will output A record:
dig @ns1.myname.com myname.com +short A
My question is how to output both ...
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BIND result validity
I setup a local name server (BIND on OS-X) and was pleased that 'dig' response times were very short (2nd query onwards). However, if I wait a short period (5s) the response time goes up again - the ...
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dig @my-server-ip mydomain.com works from inside, not from outside?
My server has 2 ips: x.x.x.73 and x.x.x.248. I can access my site via these ips,
using Web browser.
{Now, from a CentOS machine (not my server), using terminal}
If I:
dig @x.x.x.73 mydomain.com
...
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resolv.conf options not being honored
Was hoping to implement the "options rotate" directive within resolv.conf to have DNS lookups rotate through the nameservers listed in that file. As I understand it that is the point of this ...
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OpenSource NetworkTools Application
Are there any opensource web-application tools like http://network-tools.com/ ?
I want to perform DIG, traceroute, ping, telnet, whois etc.
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host dns lookup curiosity
Can anyone help me understand this :--
%)-- host brahma.mksh.net
Host brahma.mksh.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
now when I run dig with trace.. I get the A record for brahma.mksh.net that I've ...
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DIG connection times out DNS [closed]
I'm at home (COMCAST is the ISP). I can run nslookup and resolve IPs fine. When I run dig I receive "connection timed out: no servers could be reached"
I'm going to fireup a network trace but ...
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Can't seem to resolve domain, but can dig it
I've an interesting bug in my master name server. I'm running Fedora Linux, with bind 9.3.4. The server is planned to be replaced, as it's quite old, but I have to make it work in the meantime. The ...
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dig behavior on RHEL6
dig on RHEL6 has a different behavior than in RHEL5, related to the @server syntax:
root@rhel6# dig @some.dnsserver.com any some.example.com
dig: couldn't get address for 'some.dnsserver.com': not ...
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dig: “Transfer failed.”
INPUT:
dig +multiline google.com axfr
OUTPUT:
; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-RedHat-9.7.3-1.fc14 <<>> +multiline google.com axfr
;; global options: +cmd
; Transfer failed.
What am I ...
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Forcing the dig tool to return us answers from the root servers
When doing a dig over some site (i.e. www.nasa.gov) from different online dig tool sites(in this case, http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Tools/dig.php and http://www.kloth.net/services/dig.php), I've ...
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Why is my domain failing on some DNS servers?
I'm having some problems with my domains on some DNS servers. For instance, opencraft.org gives a SERVFAIL message on a number of domain servers around the world. It resolves fine from Google's DNS:
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Getting answer from nslookup but not from dig
So if I use dig to do a reverse lookup I get:
dig 71.74.56.122
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> 71.74.56.122
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- ...
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DNS Subdomain delegation issue
(Updated the post with more detailed example)
I have my domain: example.com setup at DNS provider 1. Provider 1 has nameservers:
ns1.dns1.com
ns2.dns1.com
I want to delegate authority for ...
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A working domain without NS record. Possible?
Is it possible to have a working A record (a working website) without having a NS record?
mylinux:~# dig example.com NS
; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1.2 <<>> example.com NS
;; global ...
