DIG NS output order

[Barry Margolin]

In article <fqgb5p$2m8g$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:18:01PM -0800,
>  ultradennis at comcast.net <ultradennis at comcast.net> wrote 
>  a message of 9 lines which said:
> 
> > u do a dig @ any ww.abc.com 
> 
> Impossible. Invalid syntax.
> 
> > it comes back with 3 name servers can you assume the first NS record
> > is where the answer came from.
> 
> No.
> 
> > If not, is there a option in DIG when do a query to list what server
> > it queried to get the authoritative answer?
> 
> dig +trace may be what you want. Example:

dig +trace doesn't do a recursive query in the first place, it performs 
the iteration by itself.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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