NAME

       dnstrace - DNS lookup tool

SYNOPSIS

       dnstrace t fqdn r


DESCRIPTION

       dnstrace searches for all DNS servers that can affect the resolution of
       records of type t under the domain name fqdn, starting from the root
       server r.  You can list more than one root server.

       dnstrace uses the standard DNS resolution algorithm, but follows all
       possible paths in the algorithm.  It prints all responses it receives
       from DNS servers; it also prints warnings about slow servers, dead
       servers, misdelegated (``lame'') servers, and misformatted packets.
       dnstrace is similar in spirit to DOC and dnswalk but is much more
       effective than those tools at debugging resolution problems.

       You can pipe dnstrace through dnstracesort for human-friendly output.
       dnstrace can take a long time to run, so standard procedure is to save
       its output in a file:

         dnstrace any www.aol.com a.root-servers.net > AOL &

       Then you can run dnstracesort to see the results so far:

         dnstracesort < AOL | less

       The dnstracesort output uses ul codes for boldface and underline; these
       codes are displayed properly by less.

       Beware that, as of February 2000, dnstrace produces half a megabyte of
       output for the complete trace of a typical .com name starting from all
       the root servers.  There are more than 200 computers around the world
       that can affect all .com names.  Including IPv6 address lookup (June
       2018) the amount of output data is roughly doubled.


SEE ALSO

       dnsip(1), dnsipq(1), dnsmx(1), dnstxt(1), dnsqr(1), dnsq(1),
       dnsname(1), less(1)


REFERENCE

       http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html



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