dig performs DNS lookups and displays records matching the specified IP address or domain name.
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dig: error while loading shared libraries: libdns.so.162: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Hello I'm on my server and i try to enable https, but i have this error
dig: error while loading shared libraries: libdns.so.162: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I 've find this similar question but I don't reach to solve…

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DNS issue on macOS
I'm encountering a weird DNS issue on macOS Catalina 10.15.4:
traceroute google.com and ping google.com both returned unknown host.
However, nslookup google.com and dig google.com returned correct results with correct DNS servers (I'm using 8.8.8.8…

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How to get domain zone of the DNS A record using Ansible dig
Basically I have a simple server name ( non FQDN ) and im trying to identify in which DNS zone it has A record
We have multiple DNS zones in our environment.
As i cant rely on PTR records im trying to use DIG module to look for a A record with zone…

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Infinity in the request urls
Did anyone had problems with request URLs that finish with Infinity?
Happens that our server logs are receiving somehow, someway requests with this pattern. I don't know if is a pattern or any kind of computation that returns an overflow, or if is…

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dig NS and nslookup give outdated nameservers; +trace or whois are correct
Some time ago (months), I updated the nameservers for a number of domains I control; both the old and new nameservers are run by the same hosting company.
The NS records are correct with the registrar, and the correct records are shown by a whois…

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How can I control de output in bash using dig?
I using the following bash to get DNS records of multiples domains inside domains.txt
#!/bin/bash
for domain in $(cat domains.txt); do dig @8.8.8.8 $domain ANY +multiline +noall +answer +nocmd; done
Current dig output is:
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>>…

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dig +short doesn't work when querying root DNS server?
I've found that if I query a UK root DNS server directly (e.g 195.66.240.130) it provides a result in 2-5ms vs querying a regular DNS server which takes 15-40ms.
However, for some reason the +short option doesn't work when querying…

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Why Digging my Route 53 registered domain does not work?
I have registered the domain lohce.com a year before (2016) on Route 53 and I have create a Record Set A to guide a traffic from the www.lohce.com to my EC2 instance. Everything went fine. Recently I decided to turn off the instance and create…

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Mismatch in the number of ADDITIONAL RECORDS in dig query
While doing the DNS query through dig utility, sometimes i got Additional records in the results while sometimes not. This is very much normal.
But today i saw something interesting in the output of the dig. While querying for fb.com domain, i got…

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DIG returns IP value consistently when run from shell, not from bash script
I run this script every 15 minutes to record the IP of four dynamic hosts I have setup at duckdns.org.
DUCKDNS=( "sub1.duckdns.org"
"sub2.duckdns.org"
"sub3.duckdns.org"
"sub4.duckdns.org" )
function resolveIP () {
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Bash, convert IP address in batch
I wanna convert a list of domain to the IP address using bash scripts in OSX.
I created a list file to present the domain line by line like this
www.google.com
www.yahoo.com
www.facebook.com
I used the following scripts to lookup the IP…

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What does it mean when a "dig" command with "+nssearch" option returns nothing?
When I run the following dig command on www.google.com with the +nssearch option I get no results:
mac$ dig www.google.com +nssearch
mac$
Can someone explain why no data is returned here? The +nssearch option reads the SOA of all the authoritative…

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Erase Pixels From Sprite Cocos2d-JS
I'm getting the feeling this won't be possible, but worth asking anyway I guess.
I have a background sprite and a foreground sprite, both are the same size as the window/view.
As the player sprite moves across the screen I want to delete the pixels…

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bash script to perform dig -x
Good day. I was reading another post regarding resolving hostnames to IPs and only using the first IP in the list.
I want to do the opposite and used the following script:
#!/bin/bash
IPLIST="/Users/mymac/Desktop/list2.txt"
for IP in 'cat…

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Checking for domain availability in bash with dig
I am currently trying to write a script that will write out domains that it detects are available. The first idea was to write out any that include "NXDOMAIN", but this ended up including domains that I found I couldn't register.. so I added a…

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