DIG NS output order

[ultradennis at comcast.net]

On Mar 4, 7:20 am, Gregory Hicks <ghi... at cadence.com> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:45:37 +0100
> > From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzme... at nic.fr>
> > To: Barry Margolin <bar... at alum.mit.edu>
> > Cc: comp-protocols-dns-b... at isc.org
> > Subject: Re: DIG NS output order
>
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:46:11AM -0500,
> >  Barry Margolin <bar... at alum.mit.edu> wrote
> >  a message of 28 lines which said:
>
> > > dig +trace doesn't do a recursive query in the first place, it
> > > performs the iteration by itself.
>
> > I know. But it is the closest from the original request. Otherwise,
> > there is only tcpdump :-)
>
> dnscap..?
>
>
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Thanks everybody for their answers. I am actually digging from a DNS
server on our network and wanted to know if the dig output would let
me know what authoritative server responded.  thanks!