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Is it possible to find out which upstream DNS server my router is querying? (just using dns tools)

Ok, here is the setup: I have a local router which advertises itself as the DNS server over DHCP. The DNS resolver on the router just forwards the requests to the ISP nameservers and caches the reply. ...
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Why are DNS setup guides using private IP addresses in their examples?

I'm attempting to set up BIND9 on my server, and am attempting to follow a guide I have found online. One thing that sets off a warning flag for me is that every guide I've found seems to use private ...
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DNS: can't query domain

For some reason I can't query specific domains. Although dig works as it should, nslookup doesn't. home1:/# dig +trace www.capital.gr ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> +trace ...
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How to use DIG to get full DNS info?

How can I use DIG in one single command to get as much info on a domain name as possible,. including: Subdomans CNAME entries A Records TTL Is this possible with one single command? How can you ...
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Belkin N150 local DNS flakey

I'm having issues connecting to the various devices on my network (Mac-heavy, MBP (thunderbolt, not retina, Lion), Macbook (Late 2007, white, Snow Leopard), iPad (3rd gen, iOS6), Apple TV (2nd gen, ...
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What does getting an answer from dig but not from whois imply?

So when I execute this: dig hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com I get this: hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com. 7208 IN A 71.74.56.122 hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com. 7208 IN A 71.74.56.123 ...
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Ubuntu: Linux can browse sites, bash can't even resolve the dns name - Huh!

I've been work on this all day and I'm as mystified as when I started. I have an Ubuntu 10 system. On the desktop I have firefox and a bash shell running. Firefox can see and browse any site (I'm ...
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'dig any' results wrong, missing data

I was playing about with 'dig' showing a friend how it worked when I spotted some odd behaviour with the 'any' type. I believe that using 'dig any' will get all the record types automatically but ...
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Installing dig on Debian

I've tried installing dig on Debian, but the apt-get utility doesn't seem to know what it is. Is it part of some larger set of packages? Where can I find this?