list domains a DNS is authoritative for: possible ?

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Fri Nov 24 09:48:28 UTC 2000


>>>>> "Nicolas" == "Nicolas De Rycke <- C4iFR" <nderycke at c4ifr.com>> writes:

    Nicolas> Is it possible to list the zones a DNS is authoritative
    Nicolas> for ? I can list the hosts of a domain using nslookup or
    Nicolas> dig but what I want to do is to list all the domains a
    Nicolas> given DNS knows about. Is it possible ?

s/DNS/name server/

The answer to your question is no. The only way to find out which
zones a name server is authoritative for is to examine its config
file. That means either logging in to the server and counting the
number of zone{} statements (or equivalent).



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