RE: [PLUG] dig returns "Transfer failed", what to do?

["kaze" <kaze@voicenet.com>]

Hmmm. From your and gr's replies I see that I don't totally understand what
these tools do.

I have requested to be allowed zone transfers to my ip address for my
zones - so that will help if they do it.

If I may restate the question: How can you collect the data needed to create
zone files on an existing domain - other than simply doing a zone transfer
from it?

- Zake

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--> Subject: RE: [PLUG] dig returns "Transfer failed", what to do?
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--> I'm not sure i understand your point. A zone-transfer tells you
--> everything
--> in the zone. If you knew everything in the zone you could query for that
--> information. dig -t MX google.com; dig -t NS google.com; dig
--> every-single-hostname-and-cname.google.com. As for your example
--> you are just
--> querying an individual record in the 100.53.239.216.in-addr.arpa zone.
-->
--> Kevin Ruse
--> Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard
-->
--> -----Original Message-----
--> From: kaze [mailto:kaze@voicenet.com]
--> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 10:41 AM
--> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
--> Subject: RE: [PLUG] dig returns "Transfer failed", what to do?
-->
-->
--> --> > Does anyone know, is there some software or web sites
--> that generate
--> --> > all the info that would be in a zone file (doesn't have to in the
--> --> > named zone format - I'll do that part), maybe from reverse lookups
--> --> > against all the IPs in the domain's range or something?
--> -->
--> --> That question doesn't make sense. There is NOT a one-to-one mapping
--> --> between IP addresses and hostnames, even if a given domain is
--> --> entirely contained within a given IP-number network. (Think CNAMEs,
--> --> MX records...)
--> -->
--> --> --
--> --> gabriel rosenkoetter
--> --> gr@eclipsed.net
-->
--> Thanks, I'm getting it. But look below, I can get multiple FQDN
--> from one IP
--> using host -v doing a reverse lookup. If I knew all the
--> Internet routable IP
--> addresses of a given domain name would doing "host -v <each
--> IP>" give me all
--> the same mappings, albeit backwards, as getting the zone transfer?
-->
--> - Zake
-->
--> [root@rh9 root]# host google.com
--> google.com has address 216.239.53.100
--> google.com has address 216.239.51.100
-->
--> [root@rh9 root]# host -v 216.239.53.100
--> Trying "100.53.239.216.in-addr.arpa"
--> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7139
--> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
-->
--> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
--> ;100.53.239.216.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR
-->
--> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
--> 100.53.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 6098 IN    PTR     www.google.com.
-->
--> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
--> 53.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 8262   IN      NS      ns1.google.com.
--> 53.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 8262   IN      NS      ns2.google.com.
--> 53.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 8262   IN      NS      ns3.google.com.
--> 53.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 8262   IN      NS      ns4.google.com.
-->
--> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
--> ns1.google.com.         83890   IN      A       216.239.32.10
--> ns2.google.com.         74092   IN      A       216.239.34.10
--> ns3.google.com.         239626  IN      A       216.239.36.10
--> ns4.google.com.         71234   IN      A       216.239.38.10
-->
--> Received 209 bytes from 68.80.0.6#53 in 285 ms
-->
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