Mac Os X Terminal: How to view a domain's zone file?

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Jannis picture Jannis · Nov 23, 2010 · Viewed 39.1k times · Source

I'm trying to query a domain to retrieve its full DNS zone listings (A, MX, CNAME,…)

It seems that host -a is only returning the NS and MX records.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer

noodl picture noodl · Nov 23, 2010 
→ dig -t ANY stackoverflow.com 

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> -t ANY stackoverflow.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20242
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;stackoverflow.com.     IN  ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
stackoverflow.com.  1202    IN  A   64.34.119.12
stackoverflow.com.  65902   IN  NS  ns3.p19.dynect.net.
stackoverflow.com.  65902   IN  NS  ns1.p19.dynect.net.
stackoverflow.com.  65902   IN  NS  ns4.p19.dynect.net.
stackoverflow.com.  65902   IN  NS  ns2.p19.dynect.net.

;; Query time: 38 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)
;; WHEN: Tue Nov 23 19:55:51 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 137

Does that work for you?

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