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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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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?
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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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, ...
