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dig performs DNS lookups and displays records matching the specified IP address or domain name.

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How do I get a list of all subdomains of a domain?

I want to find out all the subdomains of a given domain. I found a hint which tells me to dig the authoritative Nameserver with the following option: dig @ns1.foo.example example.com axfr But this never works. Has anyone a better idea/approach
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Using dig to search for SPF records

I am using dig installed on my machine to search for SPF records for a particular domain. Is there a way to search a particular DNS server for the SPF records? For example, will the following work? dig domain.example txt host…
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Get IPv4 and IPv6 with one command

I would like to know if it's possible to get IPv4 and IPv6 addresses with just one invocation of dig? For example, this gives the IPv4 address: dig hostname A And this command will give me the IPv6 address: dig hostname AAAA How can I get both…
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What does the authority section mean in dig results?

Yesterday I changed my domain's name server from cloudflare to dnspod. And I used dig to test it. But the ANSWER SECTION is always the old name servers. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: amazingjxq.com. 21336 IN NS …
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Meaning of the five fields of the ANSWER SECTION in dig query

Here is the ANSWER SECTION when I run dig www.google.com: ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.google.com. 108 IN A 74.125.239.115 www.google.com. 108 IN A 74.125.239.114 www.google.com. 108 IN A …
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Find all domains under a TLD

I'm trying to find a way to list all registered domains under a top-level domain (TLD). I.e. everything under .com, .net, etc. All the tools I find only applies to finding subdomains under a domain.
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Safely assign value to nested hash using Hash#dig or Lonely operator(&.)

h = { data: { user: { value: "John Doe" } } } To assign value to the nested hash, we can use h[:data][:user][:value] = "Bob" However if any part in the middle is missing, it will cause error. Something like h.dig(:data, :user,…
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dig (DNS Lookup) specify DNS server on Windows

In Linux, I would use dig to specify a DNS server of 127.0.0.1 with the following command: dig google.com @127.0.0.1 I installed Bind tools for windows (choco install bind-toolsonly). How can I run that same command? I get the following error: PS…
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Using the dig command in python

Just a forewarning, my python skills are almost nonexistent, but I’m trying to learn as I go. I'm doing a few changes via our DNS control panel over the weekend to about 58 CNAMES (just changing the destination) And rather than checking the changes…
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Dig +trace does not do a trace

dig +trace google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> +trace google.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Received 12 bytes from 100.98.0.0#53(100.98.0.0) in 388 ms dig google.com +trace ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> google.com +trace ;; global options: +cmd ;; Received…
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search for ALL DNS TXT records of a domain and subdomains

There is a way to retrieve ALL (TXT) entries about DNS records of a domain (and subdomains) ? My goal is to verify the configuration of my domain: www.rosposhop.com where I correctly set multiple SPF and DKIM records for some…
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Difficulty using Python's socket.gethostbyaddr()

I am trying to reverse dns a list of IPs using socket.gethostbyaddr() in python, which returns 'Unknown Host' for some values, but using dig for the same ip returns the Hostname. Also, dig seems to be significantly faster than using python module,…
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Why dig does not resolve K8s service by dns name while nslookup has no problems with it?

Here are steps to reproduce: minikube start kubectl run nginx --image=nginx kubectl expose deployment nginx --port=80 --type=ClusterIP kubectl run -i --tty --rm alpine --image=alpine --restart=Never -- sh apk add --no-cache bind-tools Now let's…
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Can I lookup NS and A at the same time using dig

Is it possible to lookup the A (ip address) and NS (nameservers) of a domain using a single dig command? I can use dig google.com A +short or dig google.com NS +short but surely it's possible to do it with just one command? If not, is there a…
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How make dns queries in dns-python as dig (with additional records section)?

I trying use dns python and want get all records with ANY type query: import dns.name import dns.message import dns.query domain = 'google.com' name_server = '8.8.8.8' domain = dns.name.from_text(domain) if not domain.is_absolute(): domain =…
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