dns_tree(1)
dns_tree — command-line frontend to dig
Description
dns_browse
NAME
dns_tree — command-line frontend to dig
SYNOPSIS
dns_tree [-f] [-v] [-d] [-t TYPE] [-m MATCH] DNS_domain
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the dns_tree command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
dns_tree is a program that works as a front-end to dig. Given a specific domain dns_tree will make several dig invocations to fetch a zone and it will format the output in in a somewhat sensible hierarchical style (a tree).
Information extracted from the DNS relies on being possible to fetch a zone through a zone transfer. If the DNS servers for the requested domain do not allow file transfers dns_tree will not be able to obtain information from the zone.
All data obtain is cached in ˜/.DNS_BROWSE with an approximation of the usual DNS caching rules. Remove all files in that directory to prematurely flush the cache.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
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-t TYPE |
Show only records of TYPE. This argument can be repeated to indicate multiple types. Use the "all" type to print all the known types. | ||
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-m MATCH |
Show only records in which the first component matches the PERL regexpt MATCH. | ||
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-h |
Show summary of options. | ||
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-v |
Enable verbose mode. All DNS requests are printed in the standard error. | ||
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-d |
Enable debug output. Presents internal information of the program | ||
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-f |
Override warnings (force). |
SEE ALSO
dig (1), dns_browse (1), perlrequick (1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino jfs@debian.org for the Debian system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.