Mac Os X Terminal: How to view a domain's zone file?

Question

I'm trying to query a domain to retrieve its full DNS zone listings (A, MX, CNAME,…)

It seems that host -a is only returning the NS and MX records.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

→ dig -t ANY stackoverflow.com   ; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> -t ANY stackoverflow.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20242 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0  ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;stackoverflow.com.     IN  ANY  ;; ANSWER SECTION: stackoverflow.com.  1202    IN  A   64.34.119.12 stackoverflow.com.  65902   IN  NS  ns3.p19.dynect.net. stackoverflow.com.  65902   IN  NS  ns1.p19.dynect.net. stackoverflow.com.  65902   IN  NS  ns4.p19.dynect.net. stackoverflow.com.  65902   IN  NS  ns2.p19.dynect.net.  ;; Query time: 38 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254) ;; WHEN: Tue Nov 23 19:55:51 2010 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 137 

Does that work for you?