Q: how can i resolve a domain to show all hosts?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Oct 23 16:54:27 UTC 2001


In article <9r45rn$kee at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Cyberdude47 <cyberdude47 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a question and I don''t know if it's possible.
>
>If you have a domain say bar.com is there a way to get all the hosts from
>their NS?
>Such as foo1.bar.com, foo2.bar.com etc...
>And I mean the entire list ;) not just the nameservers....
>I have a domain I need to check for strange entries in their NS, but have no
>clue how to do this...

dig bar.com axfr @<nameserver>

or

nslookup
>server <nameserver>
>ls -d bar.com

This is called a "zone transfer", and it's possible that the DNS provider
has prohibited it.

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