Questions tagged [dig]

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How to install dig on CentOS?

I can't find the dig command on my new CentOS installation. I've tried dnf install dig but it say that it cannot find the package. How do I install dig on CentOS?
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dig vs nslookup

Why do the commands dig and nslookup sometimes print different results? ~$ dig facebook.com ; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P1 <<>> facebook.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6625 ;; flags: qr rd ra;…
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Is `dig ptr` a valid way to perform a reverse DNS query?

I know we can use dig -x to perform a reverse DNS query. I have a textbook in front of me that says that both dig ptr and dig -x are valid syntax. dig -x definitely works for me, but I'm not getting an answer with dig ptr: ~ $ dig ptr…
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How does dig find my WAN-IP-address? What is "myip.opendns.com" doing?

I needed to automatically get my own WAN-IP-address from my router. I found this question and, among others, a solution with dig was proposed: dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com It works perfectly, but now I want to understand what…
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how to extract just the IP address from a DNS query

On Alpine Linux, I'd like to know how to extract just the IP address from a DNS / dig query. The query I'm running looks like this: lab-1:/var/# dig +answer smtp.mydomain.net +short smtp.ggs.mydomain.net 10.11.11.11 I'd like to be able to get…
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Why doesn't systemd-resolved use my local DNS server?

I'm using a local BIND9 server to host some local dns records. When trying to dig for a local domain name I can't find it if I don't explicitly tell dig to use my local BIND9 server. user@heimdal:~$ dig +short heimdal.lan.se user@heimdal:~$ dig…
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How to install dig on Cygwin?

I cannot find dig command on my Cygwin, nor any package name that would directly point to it. If there is a package containing it, then which one to install?
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How do I figure out where wrong local dns results are coming from?

I'm running mint Mate 17.2. When I use dig, for a certain specific domain name, the resolved IP "answer" is wrong, and the answer server is 127.0.0.1. Trying to access this domain from my local computer via ssh, a web browser, etc also resolves to…
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How shall I understand the output of `dig`?

How shall I understand the output of dig? A DNS server stores a database of resource records. Does dig return the resource records in the database of some DNS server? If yes, which DNS server's database's resource records does dig return? For…
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How to enable nameserver recursion?

On Ubuntu 14.04, when I'm performing a dig google.de on my machine, I get a REFUSED status (reducing to relevant lines): me@machine:~# dig google.de ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 26926 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0,…
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dig / nslookup cannot resolve, but ping can

I'm experimenting with a Win10 IoT board that runs a web interface on minwinpc.local. This works fine in the browser, and also when I use ping. However, when I use dig or nslookup, I cannot get resolve working. How can ping and the browser possibly…
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Why does dig -6 google.com not work for me?

Result of dig -6 google.com: ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> -6 google.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached What does it means if dig -4 google.com works correctly? Does it mean that my provider doesn't support…
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dig does not resolve unqualified domain names, but nslookup does

I have a lab set up with DNS running on a CentOS7 server (dns01.local.lab). The local.lab domain is defined in named.conf: zone "local.lab" IN { type master; file "local.lab.zone"; allow-update { none; }; }; I also have a reverse zone…
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Going all-in on DNSSEC

I have been doing an effort to go full on DNSSEC on my system with the following setup: dnscrypt-proxy installed, up and running on 127.0.0.1 with require_dnssec = true systemd-resolved running, with DNSSEC=yes and DNS=127.0.0.1 only nameserver…
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Unable to run DNS queries when response is bigger than 512 Bytes and truncated

Situation: Linux machine running in Azure looking for a public domain that returns 112 results the packet response size is 1905 bytes Case 1: interrogating google DNS 8.8.8.8 - it returns un-truncated response. Everything is OK. Case…
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