reverse lookup zone transfer using nslookup

[David Botham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Matt Bayliss
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:10 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: reverse lookup zone transfer using nslookup
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to examine the in-addr.arpa. database using nslookup but
I am
> getting errors.
> 
> This is what I'm doing:
> 
> > ls -d 7.10.10.in-addr.arpa. > dns7.txt
> [firewall.somedomain.com]
> Received 0 records.
> *** Can't list domain 7.10.10.in-addr.arpa.: Query refused

I think that nslookup uses an axfr request to get the whole zone so that
it can "ls" its contents.  The server responsible for the zone is
question does not allow zone transfers from the system on which you are
executing the nslookup.


Dave...


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