topic Re: Check DNS zone serial Number in Operating System - Linux

Check DNS zone serial Number

'chris' — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:31:15 GMT

hi

Howto check DNS zone serial Number on the secondary DNS server for example using dig?

Re: Check DNS zone serial Number

Steven Schweda — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:07:42 GMT

I know nothing, but a Google search for
dns dig serial
found many things, including:

http://www.madboa.com/geek/dig/

$ dig +nocmd ogi.edu any +multiline +noall +answer

I assume that one could specify a particular
server somehow. I see:

Query a different nameserver?

Just specify it on the command line:

dig @ns1.google.com www.google.com

When you did your Web search, what did you
look for?

Re: Check DNS zone serial Number

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:00:52 GMT

Shalom,

It shows up on

dig any hpux.ws (pick your own domain name)

dig any | grep SOA

# Will also return the data.

Your secondary's if configured correctly will always have the same serial number as the master.

SEP

Re: Check DNS zone serial Number

'chris' — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:28:06 GMT

THX

# dig any @194.X.X.X mydomain.net | grep SOA

works perfectly.