Re: Hint for nslookup wanted ...

["Walter H." <walter.h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, October 11, 2016 15:27, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> This is bad advice, because in DNS, ANY != ALL
>
> If you query with qtype=any, and you ask a caching resolver, then it
> will return to you all the records that are in its cache at that time,
> which may or may not include the records you want.
>
> In order to definitively get the A as well as the AAAA records, one
> needs to ask for them specifically:
>
> nslookup -type=AAAA www.example.com
> nslookup -type=A www.example.com
>
> This makes a cache explicitly look up those types of records if it
> doesn't already have them.
>
Thanks this brings light in the dark ...

Greetings,
Walter

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