The title is pretty much self-explanatory: Today I Learnt that the dig command exists and my mind if pretty much blown.
Till today, the way I checked my domain records was either by going to my registrar’s page or by using nslookup to get the A record which is what I mostly have to do. But then I discovered dig. Ahh…
dig google.com ANY +noall +answer
That’s all it takes. LOOK AT THIS RESPONSE!
; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Debian <<>> google.com ANY +noall +answer
;; global options: +cmd
google.com. 299 IN A 74.125.24.102
google.com. 299 IN A 74.125.24.100
google.com. 299 IN A 74.125.24.139
google.com. 299 IN A 74.125.24.113
google.com. 299 IN A 74.125.24.138
google.com. 299 IN A 74.125.24.101
google.com. 299 IN AAAA 2404:6800:4003:c03::71
google.com. 599 IN MX 40 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
google.com. 21599 IN NS ns3.google.com.
google.com. 59 IN SOA ns1.google.com. dns-admin.google.com. 231601783 900 900 1800 60
google.com. 599 IN MX 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
google.com. 299 IN TXT "docusign=05958488-4752-4ef2-95eb-aa7ba8a3bd0e"
google.com. 3599 IN TXT "facebook-domain-verification=22rm551cu4k0ab0bxsw536tlds4h95"
google.com. 21599 IN NS ns4.google.com.
google.com. 599 IN MX 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
google.com. 599 IN MX 50 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
google.com. 21599 IN NS ns1.google.com.
google.com. 3599 IN TXT "globalsign-smime-dv=CDYX+XFHUw2wml6/Gb8+59BsH31KzUr6c1l2BPvqKX8="
google.com. 21599 IN CAA 0 issue "pki.goog"
google.com. 21599 IN NS ns2.google.com.
google.com. 599 IN MX 30 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
google.com. 3599 IN TXT "v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all"
This pretty much gives me everything I need! I love it.
dig stands for Domain Information Groper, by the way.