Search Again: Re: what command From: Men & Mice Support Date: Saturday, July 5, 2003 Time: 12:11:30 pm To query a particular server about a particular zone, you would use this command (order of command-line options not important): dig @server.name zone.name SOA +norecurse That is, query the server "server.name" for the SOA record of the zone "zone.name". Query iteratively, rather than recursively, so that the server simply gives you what data it has, rather than trying to look up what it doesn't know. The response will have several sections. 'dig' puts comments at the beginning of each of these sections. Look for the HEADER section, and the flags line in particular. Look for the flag "aa" - if it's there, then the server is configured properly as an authoritative server for the zone in question. If it's not there, then whatever answer it gives is simply cached data. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy At 4:45 PM -0700 7/4/03, Scott Haneda wrote: >One of the things I really miss in OS X is the DNS Expert application, >mainly I used it for one thing... > >What domains have I not told my secondary to be slave for. > >How can I use the terminal to find this out, if I can do that, then I can >cerate a script that will take in a list of domains. > >Are there any other useful commands I could add to this script to mimic DNS >Expert? > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------- >Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 >http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052 >scott@newgeo.com Novato, CA U.S.A.

Messages In This Thread: what command by Scott Haneda on Jul 4, 2003 at 4:47:37 pm Re: what command by Men & Mice Support on Jul 5, 2003 at 12:11:30 pm