Digging to the final IP

[Dave Knight]

On Oct 19, 2014, at 1:26, Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:

> Is there a dig option that will list out the final (IPs) or query result??
> By default, even with +short, it can list intermediate CNAME(s) and not what
> IP(s) that CNAME may have.  
> 
> For example, 
> 	root at nagios:/tmp# dig mail.automatedwastesystems.net +short
> 	mail3.sandhills.com.
> 	root at nagios:/tmp#
> 
> I'd rather know that mail3.sandhills.com is NXDOMAIN.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Frank


How about… 

$ dig +noall +answer mail.automatedwastesystems.net in a | egrep 'IN\tA\t' | cut -f6

which correctly returns nothing in this case, but when there’s a CNAME chain ending in addresses it returns them

$ dig +noall +answer dave.knig.ht in a | egrep 'IN\tA\t' | cut -f6
216.235.14.46

and surely you want IPv6 support…

$ dig +noall +answer dave.knig.ht in a dave.knig.ht in aaaa | egrep 'IN\t(A|AAAA)\t' | cut -f6
216.235.14.46
2001:4900:1:393::2

dave
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