Dave, Thanks for the input, but what I was looking for was a dig command that returns the IP(s) or a fail. It looks like the host command is the right solution in this case, not dig.
Kind regards, Frank -----Original Message----- From: Dave Knight [mailto:d...@knig.ht] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 8:21 PM To: Frank Bulk Cc: bind-users Subject: Re: Digging to the final IP On Oct 19, 2014, at 1:26, Frank Bulk <frnk...@iname.com> wrote: > Is there a dig option that will list out the final (IPs) or query result?? > By default, even with +short, it can list intermediate CNAME(s) and not what > IP(s) that CNAME may have. > > For example, > root@nagios:/tmp# dig mail.automatedwastesystems.net +short > mail3.sandhills.com. > root@nagios:/tmp# > > I'd rather know that mail3.sandhills.com is NXDOMAIN. > > Regards, > > Frank How about. $ dig +noall +answer mail.automatedwastesystems.net in a | egrep 'IN\tA\t' | cut -f6 which correctly returns nothing in this case, but when there's a CNAME chain ending in addresses it returns them $ dig +noall +answer dave.knig.ht in a | egrep 'IN\tA\t' | cut -f6 216.235.14.46 and surely you want IPv6 support. $ dig +noall +answer dave.knig.ht in a dave.knig.ht in aaaa | egrep 'IN\t(A|AAAA)\t' | cut -f6 216.235.14.46 2001:4900:1:393::2 dave _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
