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Jeremy,
Re: finding out all machine names within a domain
From: stuff
Date: Monday, June 5, 2000
Time: 12:10:16 pm
I'll get back with you later this week. Have a few more domains to add <g>
I was trying to make life easier for all <g>
Thanks!
Dale
> From: Mia's Virtual Post Office <list@mia.net>
> Reply-To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com>
> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:34:09 -0500
> To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com>
> Subject: Re: finding out all machine names within a domain
>
> Men & Mice Support said:
>
>> At 11:23 AM +0100 6/5/00, Dale Therio wrote:
>>> Is there a tool to allow you to find out all of the machine
>>> names within a particular domain?
>>>
>>> I have DNS Expert and I simply want to verify what machine names
>>> I have asked my co-location provider to setup. I have fogotten
>>> some of them and don't want to bother them with this request
>>> (not that it has been any problem in the past). I just want to
>>> do whatever groundwork I can myself without bugging them all the
>>> time <g>
>>
>> The only way to see all records of a given type (or all records of
>> any type) in a given domain is to request a zone transfer. DNS Expert
>> can do this, as can most any other DNS query tool.
>>
>> However, many servers restrict access to zone transfers. If this is
>> the case, then you have no choice but to ask your provider.
>> ____________________________________________________________________
>
> Yikes.. Sorry Dale, we are one of those providers that restricts
> transfers.. Reason being, we had an incident a while back where a dialup
> customer from an ISP in another state did a zone transfer on our network
> to find out what was where on our network. Then he got a dialup account
> with us and began snooping via a shell account here. This set off some
> alarms, and my Linux Tech canned him after finding our zone files in his
> home directory. Did not do any damage, but we noticed this activity and
> thought we should do things to prevent it again. We also setup access
> lists in our router to prevent dialup customers on our network from
> snooping around at our servers, or our customer servers.
>
> I can add you servers here to the list of "OK" to do zone transfers, or
> if you have a static IP abroad, let me know and we will add it so you can
> do transfers.
>
> take care.
>
> jer
> www.hostdrive.com
>
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>
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>
>
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