Default query type of dig
Sam Wilson
Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk
Wed Jun 25 17:14:17 UTC 2014
In article <mailman.434.1403713820.26362.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
Scott Bertilson <ssb at umn.edu> wrote:
> Don't know if you can control the default query type, but this is a RTFM
> (see "man dig"):
>
> It is possible to set per-user defaults for dig via ${HOME}/.digrc. This
> file is read and any options in it are applied before the command line
> arguments.
You can put '-t aaaa' in .digrc and dig will default to AAAA queries.
Unfortunately in the version I have this also overrides the default PTR
type for -x queries. Other queries seem to work fine. (DiG 9.8.5-P1,
supplied with Mac OS X 10.8).
Sam
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