[155580] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Finding "Name Servers" (not NS records) of domain name
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Palmer)
Fri Aug 17 08:15:42 2012
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:14:24 +1000
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 06:10:25PM -0400, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> Now as you would be knowing if I do regular dig with ns, it provides NS
> records. However I was able to find nameservers by digging gTLD root for
> gTLD based domains. This works for .com/net/org etc but again fails for say
> .us, .in etc. I was wondering if there's an easy way to do it rather then
> running script on thousands of domain names again & again digging registry
> specific nameservers?
I religiously use http://squish.net/dnscheck/ the moment I suspect *any*
sort of DNS hinkiness. Verbose, but *damn* if it doesn't hand me the answer
practically every time.
- Matt
