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Re: dns & telnet

From: Global Homes Webmaster
Date: Monday, August 21, 2000
Time: 4:41:54 pm

On 08/21/00 at 13:43, Aaron Lynch wrote:

> is it possible to query a dns server directly with a telnet connection? How
> would I go about it?

DNS runs on port 53, so you can telnet to that port on the server's IP
address. From there, you'll need to know how to put query packets together to
send to the server. You can read up on that in RFC 1035, Section 4
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1035.html>. Good luck. 8^)

Christopher Bort



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