Search Again: Re: Searching out domains that I forgot to tell to slave. From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Time: 12:50:29 pm Actually, since the goal is to find out whether the slave contains an authoritative version of the zone, not to get the slave to look up data if necessary, try this: dig @slave zone.name soa +norecurse The order of words after 'dig' itself is not important. So for example: dig soa +norecurse @dns2.intermag.com newgeo.com And since you don't really care about the records returned, just the 'aa' flag, you can filter it like this (with the result shown after): $ dig soa +norecurse @dns2.intermag.com newgeo.com | grep flags:.*\ aa\ ;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 Note the space after the final "\" at the end of the command. This looks for "flags:" and " aa " on the same line in the result. If there's a result line (it will look like the above), then the slave is properly configured. If there's no result, then there's a problem either in the typing of the command or in the slave's configuration. Of course, with just a little more effort, you could create a full-blown shell script that would iterate through zone names stored in a text file, check them all, and display the names of ones that have problems. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy At 9:20 AM -0700 12/16/03, Dan Farmer wrote: >dig @slave domain.com > >ex: >dig @192.168.0.2 www.newgeo.com >dig @192.168.0.2 newgeo.com MX > >hope this helps > >On Dec 16, 2003, at 1:19 AM, Scott Haneda wrote: > >>Friend of mine does my secondary DNS, sometimes I forget to tell him to add >>in a domain, so now I need to take some domains and ask of my secondary if >>it is being slaved. >> >>Currently I use >>nslookup example.com dns2.example.com >> >>But that complains : >>Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. >>Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with >>the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing. >> >>However, I can not for the life of me get dig to tell me the same, or at >>least I don't know what I am looking for, can someone shed some light on >>this? >> >>thanks >>-- >>------------------------------------------------------------- >>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: Searching out domains that I forgot to tell to slave. by Scott Haneda on Dec 16, 2003 at 12:21:35 am Re: Searching out domains that I forgot to tell to slave. by Dan Farmer on Dec 16, 2003 at 8:22:33 am Re: Searching out domains that I forgot to tell to slave. by Men & Mice Support on Dec 16, 2003 at 12:50:29 pm Re: Searching out domains that I forgot to tell to slave. by Scott Haneda on Dec 16, 2003 at 7:37:01 pm