Search Again: Re: dig documentation From: Len Conrad Date: Friday, December 12, 2003 Time: 6:22:44 am >Can anyone point me to some good, detailed documentation, other than the >man page, on using dig? Thanks! try google, but there are only a handful of command line options that are used 99% of the time. What nslookup people "hate" about dig is not the dig commands but the dig responses, which are nothing but the DNS packet contents shown in its 5 sections. If you don't know DNS packet format, then understanding dig responses is "hard". If you can get past the "problem" of the responses, the common commands are forward: dig domain.tld dig domain.tld type where type is the forward record type desired, a, mx, ns, soa, any. reverse: dig -x ip.ad.re.ss The above send the query to the default NS in resolv.conf. To send to a specfic DNS, give its hosntame or ip.ad.re.ss dig @ns.domain.tld -x ip.ad.re.ss dig @ip.ad.re.ss -x ip.ad.re.ss In the M&M DNS courses, I cover the DNS packet format down to the bit level (it's a binary protocol, not text like smtp or pop), so I can then teach dig to the students. Len

Messages In This Thread: dig documentation by Kenneth Kirksey on Dec 5, 2003 at 6:22:06 am Re: dig documentation by Len Conrad on Dec 12, 2003 at 6:22:44 am Re: dig documentation by mattb on Dec 12, 2003 at 10:57:50 am Re: dig documentation by Men & Mice Support on Dec 12, 2003 at 11:19:52 am Re: dig documentation by Len Conrad on Dec 12, 2003 at 11:24:10 am Re: dig documentation by Kenneth Kirksey on Dec 12, 2003 at 12:11:50 pm Re: dig documentation by Len Conrad on Dec 12, 2003 at 1:24:25 pm