How to know forwarder of another name server

Stephen Carville carville at ugsolutions.com
Thu Aug 17 22:26:12 UTC 2000


I was thinking that a server that forwarded would return some inforamtion
about where the information came from but I guess it doesn't.  At least
when I set up a temporary forwarding zone on my server it didn't.

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Kevin Darcy wrote:

> 
> Different from what? The Authority section doesn't tell you who forwarded the
> query.
> 
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> Stephen Carville wrote:
> 
> > Could dig do this?  Use dig @server domain.name and see if the AUTHORITY
> > section is different.
> >
> > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> >
> > 
> > > Stefan Probst wrote:
> > >
> > > > Good Morning,
> > > >
> > > > is there a way/tool to find out which forwarders another name server is
> > > > using?
> > >
> > > 1. Ask the administrator(s).2. Break into the box and look at its named.conf.
> > >
> > > :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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