NAME¶
dns_tree — command-line frontend to dig
SYNOPSIS¶
dns_tree [
-f] [
-v] [
-d] [
-t TYPE]
[ -m MATCH] DNS_domain
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
dns_tree command.
This manual page was written for the
Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
dns_tree is a program that works as a front-end to
dig. Given a
specific domain
dns_tree will make several
dig invocations to
fetch a zone and it will format the output in in a somewhat sensible
hierarchical style (a tree).
Information extracted from the DNS relies on being possible to fetch a zone
through a zone transfer. If the DNS servers for the requested domain do not
allow file transfers
dns_tree will not be able to obtain information
from the zone.
All data obtain is cached in ~/.DNS_BROWSE with an approximation of the usual
DNS caching rules. Remove all files in that directory to prematurely flush the
cache.
OPTIONS¶
A summary of options is included below.
- -t TYPE
- Show only records of TYPE. This argument can be repeated to
indicate multiple types. Use the "all" type to print all the
known types.
- -m MATCH
- Show only records in which the first component matches the PERL regexpt
MATCH.
- -h
- Show summary of options.
- -v
- Enable verbose mode. All DNS requests are printed in the standard
error.
- -d
- Enable debug output. Presents internal information of the program
- -f
- Override warnings (force).
SEE ALSO¶
dig (1), dns_browse (1), perlrequick (1).
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino jfs@debian.org for the
Debian system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to
copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU
General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free
Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be
found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.