topic Re: DNS find out the Master name server in Operating System - Linux

DNS find out the Master name server

'chris' — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:42:39 GMT

hi

we're migrating some public domain zone entries
from one DNS-server to another.
howto check which dns server is responsible now
for the MASTER zone entries, for example using dig ?

I tried:

# dig domain.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> domain.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24332
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;domain.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
domain.net. 83983 IN A 202.X.X.11

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Mar 4 17:33:18 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 50

but don't get AUTHORITY SECTION.

greetings
chris

Re: DNS find out the Master name server

Steven E. Protter — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:59:18 GMT

Shalom,

Actually, nslookup is a better tool for this, because it permits you to set type and look up particularly records.

If this is a public server, the folliwng website might help.

http://www.dnsstuff.com/

Sorry for being away.

SEP

Re: DNS find out the Master name server

Vipulinux — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:24:07 GMT

Hi

Check using
http://www.network-tools.com

Cheers

Re: DNS find out the Master name server

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:15:21 GMT

Chris,

If you would like to change address of one of your public DNS servers, you should update this domain's "profile", usually your registrant provides a web control panel for this.

Re: DNS find out the Master name server

Ivan Ferreira — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:40:44 GMT

To query the Name Servers for a domain you need to use:

dig domain.net NS

That will give you the list of DNS servers (masters/slaves) for the given zone.