Authoritative for what domains?

[Danny Mayer]

At 12:23 PM 2/23/02, Cricket Liu wrote:

> > Is there anyway to query a remote name server to find out what domains
> > it is authoritative for?
> >
> > For example, there is name server called ns1.someserver.com. It is
> > authoritative for abc.com, def.com and ghi.com. How can I find out that
> > those 3 domains have records on  ns1.someserver.com without knowing if
> > those domains exist?
> >
> > Any ideas or confirmation that it cannot be done would be most
> > appreciated.
>
>No, you can't do that with a query.

Not true.  Try:
dig +norecursive abc.com @ns1.someserver.com soa

If it thinks it's authorative for the domain it will set the aa bit.

         Danny