the >>dig << command

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Mon Jul 30 10:20:21 UTC 2001


Oliver wrote:
> 
> can anybody tell me how to use the dig - command, so that one can read the
> content of master and zone files as-they-are?

It doesn't do that - that is what "cat" and "more" are for.

What you probably want is "dig zone AXFR" which attempts a
zone transfer, but that is a view of the zone in memory.
BIND may discard records that were in the file.


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