Retrieving all DNS records.....

[John Smith]

Thanks for the answer Pete!

The problem I'm running into is that emails to the DNS admins usually never
gets there. As an example, the DNS admin for the Road Runner network is
abuse at rr.com. As you can imagine once you send an email you end up a tech
support rep that doesn't know how to get you through to the person - and
usually doesn't know what DNS is :-(

I compile a list of server names for each ISP and list them on my site. The
reason for this is mainly so that people can install routers and have the
FQDN as opposed to the single machine name which doesn't resolve behind most
routers.

Up to this point I've been manually researching the networks and determining
the naming conventions and server names which is very difficult and time
consuming when you consider that many of these ISP's have at least 500,000
IP addresses and in most cases, more!

-- 
Best Regards;
Marvin Miller

http://www.askmarvin.ca
"Pete Ehlke" <pde at ehlke.net> wrote in message
news:bqlccb$12pc$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:56:29AM +0000, John Smith wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > Is there any way to get a complete list of records from a remote DNS
server?
> > I've tried nslookup and it fails due to the server not wanting to list
> > everything.
> >
> > I really need a complete list of records from various DNS servers - is
there
> > anyway to do this? It would save me weeks of arduous work!
> >
> Sure.
>
> Contact the people who administer the remote DNS server and ask them for
> the data. If the remote server does not allow axfr, or you do not have a
> list of the zones on the server, this is the only way.
>
> -Pete
>