The information you seek isn’t openly available. However, there are a few options you can try: You might want to try inquiring at the respective registries directly about getting access to the Zone files. However, the process can take weeks and some registries choose not to offer access at all. For newer GTLDs you can … Read more
Reference: http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch15/#answer and http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch8/a.html The first field is the NAME: The domain name being returned The second field (108 in your example) is the TTL in seconds. IN is the CLASS. Here, IN stands for Internet. A is the TYPE. Here, A stands for mapping a domain name to an IPv4 address. The last field … Read more
The Authority section indicates the server(s) that are the ultimate authority for answering DNS queries about that domain. The reason for this section is that you can query any* DNS server(s) to answer a query for you. That server may choose though to answer the query from a cache. However, if you want to ensure … Read more
It may be that this has been added to dig since the question was asked, but for completeness this can be accomplished through the following query: dig hostname A hostname AAAA +short Source: http://linux.die.net/man/1/dig — under the ‘Multiple Queries’ section
I believe that I found the correct answer through this dig How To. I was able to look up the SPF records on a specific DNS, by using the following query: dig @ns1.nameserver1.example domain.example txt
The hint (using axfr) only works if the NS you’re querying (ns1.foo.example in your example) is configured to allow AXFR requests from the IP you’re using; this is unlikely, unless your IP is configured as a secondary for the domain in question. Basically, there’s no easy way to do it if you’re not allowed to … Read more