How to list hostnames stored in name server

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Sep 29 05:40:12 UTC 2008


In article <gbpp29$1qp3$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Beagle <beagle197 at hotmail.com> 
wrote:

> Is there a way to list the host name entries stored in a name server?
> E.g. if several A/SOA records are stored, to simply list them and
> seeing output hostname/ip entries pairs.

If you know the zones that a server hosts, and your IP is in its 
allow-transfer access list, you can do:

dig <zone> axfr @<server>

for each zone.

If you don't know the zones it hosts, there's no standard mechanism for 
getting the zone list remotely.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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