[AusNOG] DNS test tool feedback

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

Lol yeah that's how I do it when I'm doing it manually, dig one, dig the
next level down, etc etc.  Figured if you were doing it programatically
it'd be less bandwidth to use the root hints :)


On 1 August 2014 23:00, Michael Dale <mdale at dalegroup.net> wrote:

>
> I reckon you could quite easily throw something together to parse
> ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/root.zone to work out exactly which root
> server you need to query to find the NS for the domain being queried :)
>
>
> Probably, I was thinking it would just be easier to query the root name
> servers for the name servers of that specific TLD and then query those
> servers.
>
> Thanks for the link though, will be useful.
>



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