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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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