[lug] finding a DNS server

[Joseph McDonald]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:56:32PM -0600, George Sexton wrote:
> whois domainname.xxx
> 
> will return the name servers.

Another way would be to:

 dig domain.com NS 

That will return the start of authority for that domain. If you're looking
for a TLD, do:

 dig com. NS

where com. is obviously .com (you could do net. org. etc.).
You can then use dig to query those name servers directly.

	--joey


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Arlan Ramsay
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:48 PM
> To: Boulder Linux Users Group
> Subject: [lug] finding a DNS server
> 
> 
> 
> Is there a way to search a given domain to locate name servers?
> I have always had to have someone tell me some IP addresses for the
> relevant machines, but how do they find out?
> 
> Thanks,
> Arlan Ramsay
> 
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