Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Domain Names : DNS Lookup to find all records associated on name server?

[sid007]

Anyone know how I can go to a domain and lookup all records registered with that domain on the DNS server?

For example, If I go to network-tools.com and lookup a domain using their DNS Records search, it only shows me A and MX records

No CNAMES or Subdomains that may have been setup as A or CNAME records.

Anyone know where / how I can do this?

[squirrelhost]

find one of the nameservers, and then type, for example:

dig @ns59.hostgator.com aquatemplates.com axfr

(I won't show the output as it's rather long)

[rlxsystems]

The axfr option asks the name server for a zone transfer on the domain. Most DNS servers are configured to deny zone transfers to unauthorized hosts. I doubt you will have much success unless an administrator as make a serious mistake.

[squirrelhost]

all you can do is ask, and if you receive it you're lucky.
and how to ask ? run the above command. not hard.