DiG HOWTODiG HOWTO Paul Heinlein First published on August 31, 2004 Last updated on May 11, 2006 Introduction dig is a command-line tool for querying DNS name servers for information about host addresses, mail exchanges, name servers, and related information. The dig(1) man page is somewhat lacking when it comes to examples, a shortcoming this article tries to remedy. The source code for dig is part of the
