dig and root lookups
Micke Johansson
micke at listmail.c64.net
Thu Mar 1 20:37:17 UTC 2001
Hi
I guess you should have a look at RFC 2870 ( section 2.5 )
Best regards
Michael
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Michael Long wrote:
>
> I've been using dig to lookup domains on the root servers to make sure
> the world sees it (since whois isnt always reliable)
>
> I guess this is like the -root option of nslookup
>
> The problem is I can get this to work on a.root-servers.net, but not
> on any of the others. Anyone know why? Is there a better way to do
> this?
>
> dig yahoo.com @a.root-servers.net
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> yahoo.com @a.root-servers.net
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;; yahoo.com, type = A, class = IN
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> yahoo.com. 2D IN NS NS3.EUROPE.yahoo.com.
> yahoo.com. 2D IN NS NS1.yahoo.com.
> yahoo.com. 2D IN NS NS5.DCX.yahoo.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> NS3.EUROPE.yahoo.com. 2D IN A 217.12.4.71
> NS1.yahoo.com. 2D IN A 204.71.200.33
> NS5.DCX.yahoo.com. 2D IN A 216.32.74.10
>
> ;; Total query time: 37 msec
> ;; FROM: masterserv.infoave.net to SERVER: a.root-servers.net
> 198.41.0.4
> ;; WHEN: Wed Feb 14 15:21:52 2001
> ;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 140
>
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