how to check how many domains hosted by some ISP's DNS servers?

[Peter Rose]

Matthias -=20

Yes, you're right, I misunderstood the question.
And of course, dlint can't take account of multiple virtual hosts on one
IP.
Duhhh!!!

Peter

In message <NEBBLGLDKLMMGKEMEFMFOEAGCEAA.mathias at koerber.org>, Mathias
K=F6rber <mathias at koerber.org> writes
>
>Peter,
>
>unless I'm missing something, dlint cannot magically extract
>the list of zones a given server hosts (which is what
>Chris seems to want).
>It is a zone checking tool, one has to know the zone first.
>
>NSI allows
>       whois -h whois.networksolutions.com "server !serverhandle"
>but that
>       a) only finds domains registered with NSI, not any other
>               zone (reverse, subdomains, domains of other
>               registrars
>       b) stops at 50 lines :-(
>
>I know of no (better) tool to do that short of asking the admins..
>
>Back to dlint:
>I also find dlint a bit too picky with multiple names for the
>same A record:
>
>Here an example from one of my zones (koerber.org):
>
>ERROR: "lists.koerber.org. A 203.127.219.241", but the PTR record for =3D
>241.219.127.203.in-addr.arpa. is "matjes.koerber.org."
> One of the above two records are wrong unless the host is a name server =
=3D
>or mail server.
> To have 2 names for 1 address on any other hosts, replace the A record
> with a CNAME record:
> lists.koerber.org. IN CNAME matjes.koerber.org.
>
>Hmm. but lists.koerber.org is used as a target for an MX,
>so using a CNAME here would atually be wrong. There is nothing *wrong* =3D
>with
>having multiple names point to the same IP address. This should at best
>be a warning...
>
>regards
>
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