Nslookup Times Out on A Lookup To Well-Known Hosts
Merton Campbell Crockett
m.c.crockett at adelphia.net
Wed Oct 4 01:13:12 UTC 2006
On 03 Oct 2006, at 17:30 , Mark Andrews wrote:
>
> "dig +trace +all" will show the complete answer to each query.
>
> Now if you can't get to the nameserver to get their addresses
> (not just the glue) one may need to look at the addresses returned
> by the parent and perform dig queries using those addresses.
>
> Also the OP mentioned packet traces. Why wern't they posted?
> When things are going wrong seeing what is happening on the wire
> is useful for debugging. Descriptions of what is happing on the
> wire often miss critical details.
This raises an interesting question. Can you use dig to perform a
trace starting at an arbitrary point in the DNS hierarchy?
Merton Campbell Crockett
m.c.crockett at adelphia.net
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