List of domains on DNS server?

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Is there a way to get a complete list of A and CNAME records on my BIND DNS server?

I have access to the zone files. But on my server there are lots of zone files, and it'd take too long to go over all of them by hand. Is there a command that lists this info or will I have to write a script myself?

Alnitak · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-22T10:30:49.543

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Rather than use grep on all of the zone files, use:

% rndc dumpdb -zones

This will create a dump of the server's authoritative data called named_dump.db, probably in /var/named/data (or similar).

This file is easier to parse than the original zone files because every line starts with the domain name to which it applies. The raw zone files are probably abbreviated.

edited May 22 '17 at 10:30

answered May 02 '09 at 08:52

Alnitak

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Perfect, that's exactly what I needed! Though the file was named named_dump.db in my case. Thanks :) – chroder May 02 '09 at 16:58
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On Ubuntu it seems to end up in `/var/cache/bind/named_dump.db` – m01 Jun 27 '14 at 14:11

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 01 '09 at 21:53

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From your var/named/data (or equivalent directory) grep through the db.* files with an appropriate regular expression, something like:

grep '\(.  *A   *[0-9][0-9]*\)\|\(..*CNAME..*\)' db.*

Note that the final 'db.*` globs all the db files. Repeat for every directory you have zone files in.

answered May 01 '09 at 21:53

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

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That's what the find command is for! find /var/named/data -name 'db.*' -print0 | xargs -0 grep '...' – C. K. Young May 01 '09 at 23:58

score -2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 12 '11 at 14:06

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for i in my domain list; do dig -t axfr $i @localhost; done

Have to allow zone transfers from localhost first.

answered Apr 12 '11 at 14:06

dmourati

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List of domains on DNS server?

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