DNS dig and undeliverable email freeware for email spam tracking

Dig ------------- requests all the DNS records for a host or domain
Finger -------- asks a server about one of it's users
Traceroute - finds the route packets take between you and the address
Whois -- find contact information for the current domain or IP address
Ping ---- sends a series of packets to current address to see if it's alive

Advanced DNS (dig) data info for the DNS records of a host or domain, using samspade.org freeware dig tool that requests all the DNS records for a host or domain.

A	a host address
NS	an authoritative name server
MD	a mail destination (Obsolete - use MX)
MF	a mail forwarder (Obsolete - use MX)
CNAME	the canonical name for an alias
SOA	marks the start of a zone of authority
MB	a mailbox domain name (EXPERIMENTAL)
MG	a mail group member (EXPERIMENTAL)
MR	a mail rename domain name (EXPERIMENTAL)
NULL	a null RR (EXPERIMENTAL)
WKS	a well known service description
PTR	a domain name pointer
HINFO	host information

MINFO	mailbox or mail list information
MX	mail exchange
TXT	text strings
RP	Responsible person
AFSDB	AFS database ( RFC1183 ) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1183.html
X25	( RFC1183 ) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1183.html
ISDN	( RFC1183 ) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1183.html
RT	Route through ( RFC1183 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1183.html
NSAP	( RFC1637 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1637.html
NSAP	(RFC1348) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1348.html
NSAP_PTR
SIG	RFC2065 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2065.html

KEY	RFC2065 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2065.html
PX	Preference ( RFC1664 ) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1664.html
GPOS	Geographical position, also known as the ICBM record ( RFC1712 ) http://www.faqs.org/rfc1712s/rfc.html
AAAA	IPv6 Address ( RFC 1886 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1886.html
LOC	Location, also known as ICBM record ( RFC1876 ) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1876.html
NXT	RFC2065 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2065.html
EID	draft-ietf-nimrod-dns-xx.txt
NIMLOC	draft-ietf-nimrod-dns-xx.txt
SRV	Services ( RFC 2052 ) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2052.html
ATMA ?
NAPTR	( RFC2168 ) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2168.html
TSIG	draft-ietf-dnsind-tsig-xx.txt
UINFO	Non standard
UID	Non standard
GID	Non standard
UNSPEC	Non standard
IXFR	RFC1995 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1995.html
AXFR	A request for a transfer of an entire zone
MAILB	A request for mailbox-related records (MB, MG or MR)
MAILA	A request for mail agent RRs (Obsolete - see MX)
ALL	A request for all records

Tools provided by Sam Spade

Dig tool, requests all the DNS records for a host or domain

Finger a program used as one of the standard Internet protocols (rfc 1288) for retrieving Internet user info.

Traceroute tool, finds the route packets take between you
and the selected address

PING tool, sends a series of packets to the current address to see if it's alive and how long it takes packets to make the round trip

Whois tool, contact network registries to find out contact information for the current domain or IP address.

nslookup - a DNS whois tool that perform forward/reverse DNS queries for a domain address and getting an IP address of a hostname and hostname of the IP address.

IP Block tool, multiple server lookup to find owner of the block of domain or IP address.

SMTP Relay Verify (checking) tool, to find out whether a SMTP server is insecure--therefore allowing anyone to relay email through it. (Spammers relay email through third party mail server which obfuscasates message headers and harder to find the originator)

Information on this page are derived from: Advanced DNS (dig) Help Topics samspade.org a spam tracking freeware

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