getting the SOA e-mail

[Johnno]

"Lee Howard" <faxguy at server.deanox.com> wrote:

> How do you extract the e-mail address found on the SOA line from
> somebody else's server out there.  Will nslookup do this?

Try this:

dig soa domain.com | grep 'IN SOA' | awk '{print $6}'

Using grep, I am looking only for the SOA record from the answer section
containing the authoritative nameserver and email address; all other lines in
the output are ignored.

Using awk, I print the 6th field (delimited by spaces) to extract the email
address.

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Johnno (johnno at nospam.casebook.org)
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