Mite Mitreski: 04/01/2011

I recently became familiarized with dig or domain information groper, or in short it is outstanding tool for DNS lookups. It has great functionally ant it is p reinstalled on most of the distributions today.If we don't tell it to query a specific name server, dig will try each of the servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf.

The command goes something like this:

dig [ @server ] [ -b address ] [ -c class ] [ -f filename ] [ -k filename ] [ -p port# ] [ -t type ] [ -x addr ] [ -y name:key ] [ name ] [ type ] [ class ] [ queryopt... ]
dig [ -h ]
dig [ global-queryopt... ] [ query... ]

Examples

Or why I use dig mostly for. Let say i want to see all the redirects from the toplevel ns to my server.


 dig mitemitreski.com +trace

and we get something like this :


; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> mitemitreski.com +trace
;; global options: +cmd
.   46703 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
.   46703 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
;; Received 228 bytes from 
192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1) in 44 ms

com.   172800 IN NS f.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS d.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS a.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS l.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS i.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS b.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS m.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS k.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS j.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS h.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS c.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS e.gtld-servers.net.
com.   172800 IN NS g.gtld-servers.net.
;; Received 494 bytes from

 
128.8.10.90#53(d.root-servers.net) in 136 ms

mitemitreski.com. 172800 IN NS ns71.domaincontrol.com.
mitemitreski.com. 172800 IN NS ns72.domaincontrol.com.
;; Received 118 bytes from
 192.55.83.30#53(m.gtld-servers.net) in 174 ms

mitemitreski.com. 3600 IN A 96.9.172.197
mitemitreski.com. 3600 IN NS ns71.domaincontrol.com.
mitemitreski.com. 3600 IN NS ns72.domaincontrol.com.
;; Received 102 bytes from
 208.109.255.46#53(ns72.domaincontrol.com) in 126 ms

And basicly we got the redirects from the top-level domains to our host.
Let say we want to know the MX records of a server, we write

 dig mx gmail.com 

WE GET : 

; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> mx gmail.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23455
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0,
 ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gmail.com.   IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gmail.com.  3586 IN MX 30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com.  3586 IN MX 10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com.  3586 IN MX 40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com.  3586 IN MX 20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com.  3586 IN MX 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.


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For full description take a look at the dig man page or on-line at:
http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/dig/
http://ss64.com/bash/dig.html

Other references

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/dig

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