dig performs DNS lookups and displays records matching the specified IP address or domain name.
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How can I create a script that will verify dns server are synced?
I would like to create a script that verifies if all the DNS servers that are responsible for resolving a website are synced.
For example, when I execute dig ns walla.co.il +short I get the following:
a18-65.akam.net. a11-64.akam.net.…

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Do all DNS root servers and top-level-domain servers (TLD) support DNSSEC?
I know that DNSSEC has been widely implemented since 2010. For Authority name servers, it depends on the admin whether he wants to support DNSSEC or not. However, I would like to know whether or not all root name servers, and all TLD servers support…

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Python weird circumflex (^) issue in NAPTR query
I'm using Python2 to implement a server which provides NAPTR DNS answers using dnslib.
The forged answers are in the following format:
0.0.0.0.0.0.0.e164.arpa. 60 IN NAPTR 20 20 "u" "SIP+E2U" "!^.*$!SIP:0000@whatever.0.0.e164!" .
I use dig in…

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How to nest bash command output into an array inline?
Note - this is not a duplicate! There are other questions covering converting bash output to a bash array - but none of them do it inline. The reason you need inline is because of until.
I'm trying to write an until command that parses the port…

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Python - dig ANY equivalent with scapy module
I want to use the python module scapy to perform an equivalent command of
dig ANY google.com @8.8.4.4 +notcp
I've made a simple example code:
from scapy.all import *
a =…

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how to use python to dig cname with @
I found this bit of code:
1 import dns.resolver
2 answer=dns.resolver.query("google.com", "A")
3 for data in answer:
4 print data.address
And it works great but what i'm looking to do is this :
dig +noall +answer google.com…

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Shell : Add input lines subset to prefix dig output
At present,I get NS(Name Server) record for a list of domains in a loop fashion.
#ns_check.sh
for i in $(cat Input.txt);do dig +short NS $i;done
Input file has only domains.
#Input.txt
example.com
hello.com
blah.com
I get output as,
#Out.txt
…

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How to query authoritative name server to side-step propagation times?
I have a domain with 123-reg.co.uk and I've created a TXT record:
I have tried to verify it has been applied by using both the dig and host shell commands, but it appears the TXT record isn't being found.
For example...
host -t txt…

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Convenient method to collect the original TTL values of DNS A records set by zone
To avoid the cached TTL values, the way I used to do is to collect the authoritative DNS servers of one domain and issue the queries directly to the ADNS servers by using the @global-server option of dig.
However, currently I need to process…

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How to use dig command of bulk/batch lookups to read hostnames from a text file?
I have a text file with 1.txt with the following set of…

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How can I get all of the domains associated with a given ip address using Unix commands or php?
I'm trying to get all of the domains associated with a given ip address using Unix commands or php.
I've tried dig or nslookup but they give a hostname but not all the domains.
If you enter a given ip into senderscore.org it will give a report with…

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Internal DNS configuration woes
Alright, I am going to state up front that this question may be too involved (amount of detail not complexity) for this medium. But I figured this was the best place to start.
I am attempting to setup a proof of concept project and my BIND…

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Algorithm for sorting response in a round-robin DNS configuration
I'm trying to implement a sorting algorithm to ensure my DNS library always works with an ordered list of DNS records, even if the response comes from a Round-Robin configuration.
Let's take the following two responses.
First.
$ dig google.com A
;…

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dig nameserver domain | $variable doesn't work
What am I doing wrong?
This works:
ns="ns.nameserver.co.uk"
d="domain.co.uk"
dig @$ns $d A | grep $d
However using just a variable after pipe does not (it hangs):
ns="ns.nameserver.co.uk"
d="domain.co.uk"
g=$(grep $d | grep -v "DiG")
dig @$ns $d A…

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A script to show me an IP and ns[1,2].* on the same line
I have all the IPs that I want to dig +trace -x in a file called 'ips'.
I want to only see the ns1 (and/or) ns2 records of the IP and and have the IP and the ns1 or ns2 record output on the same line, like so:
1 - $IP - $NS
2 - $IP - $NS
etc.
Right…

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