Exercise: Finding Name Servers
In this lesson, we will look at a few command-line tools to lookup domain name servers.
We'll cover the following...
Finding The Authoritative Name Server Using host
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host -t ns google.com
host is a DNS lookup utility. It is normally used to map hostnames to IP addresses. However, with a combination of flags, it can be programmed to perform a myriad of DNS-related tasks.
The syntax of the command above, for instance, is
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host -t ns hostname.com
hostinvokes the host command-t