Ubuntu/Commands/dig

Commands | dig

dig

dig (domain information groper) is a network administration command-line tool for querying Domain Name System (DNS) name servers.©

Command Syntax

dig [@server] [-t type] [-x addr]

[@server]

allows you to query a specific DNS server

[-t type]

allows you to query a specific type of DNS record, A,MX,PTR,CNAME,SOA,SRV,etc

[-x addr] or [-x]

performs a reverse lookup, matching address to name. The name has to be registered with .arpa in order for this to work.