An nslookup question

[Kevin Darcy]

I already answered this once: didn't you see my response?

a) for any zone transfer, you need to be talking to an authoritative
server for the zone. Does the server you are querying consider itself
authoritative for the zone? nslookup will tag non-authoritative
responses.

b) try "ls -d": the normal "ls" command in nslookup will only show
A records

c) "dig" is much better at this kind of thing.


- Kevin

adykes at panix.com wrote:

> An example of zone transfer with nslookup in the ORA DNS & Bind book
> shows the SOA record being returned with real values.  When I try this
> against one of our dns servers I don't get a SOA record.
>
> Any idea why ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Al Dykes
> -----------
> adykes at panix.com