ls option with nslookup and dig

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9ivc18$6am at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Jean-Christophe Smith <jsmith at publichost.com> wrote:
>
>You have to be allowed by the name server to do AXFR

And you have to use the @<server> option to specify the nameserver to pull
the list from, if your default nameserver isn't authoritative for the
domain.  Zone transfers from caching-only servers don't work.

>
>-jc
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher L. Barnard" <cbar44 at tsg.cbot.com>
>To: <bind-users at isc.org>
>Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:03 AM
>Subject: Re: ls option with nslookup and dig
>
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>>
>> >
>> > carson <carson_tri1966 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Can someone please tell me how to use the ls option with nslookup or
>> > > dig (if this is even possible)?  Thanks!
>> > dig <zone> axfr
>>
>> actually, that does not appear to work:
>>
>> (~) mozart 51 % dig tsg.cbot.com axfr
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.1.2 <<>> tsg.cbot.com axfr
>> ;; global options:  printcmd
>> ; Transfer failed.
>>
>> In the "bad old days" of bind 4.x, admins were checking the functionality
>of
>> the nameserver with the ls option of nslookup.  I just removed that check
>> entirely, because it appears it cannot be done anymore.
>>
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