[dig] Domain Information Groper
Getting domain record details (NS, MX, TXT, SOA, SPF, A, AAAA, any)
By default, dig
only provides you wih an A
record, i.e. an IP. To get details about a specific record, you need to pass it as an option with dig
, like so:
dig NS aamnah.com
dig aamnah.com NS
dig MX aamnah.com
dig NS aamnah.com
is the same as dig aamnah.com NS
. It doesn’t matter if you pass the option in the beginnnig or at the end. It also doesn’t matter if you pass an uppercase NS
or a lower case ns
.
You can use any
to get all domain records (i.e. any domain record that is available):
dig any aamnah.com
dig aamnah.com any
Neat and detailed output
dig +nocmd any +noall +answer
gives a neat view without any comments.
Options
dig -h | more
to list all available options.
+[no]cmd
Toggles the printing of the initial comment in the output identifying the version of dig and the query options that have been applied. This comment is printed by default.
+[no]all
Set or clear all display flags.