Dig - Output
- Header: This displays the dig command version number, the global options used by the dig command, and some additional header information.
- QUESTION SECTION: This displays the question it asked the DNS. i.e. This is your input. Since we said ‘dig redhat.com’, and the default type dig command uses an A record, it indicates in this section that we asked for the A record of the redhat.com website.
- ANSWER SECTION: This displays the answer it receives from the DNS. i.e. This is your output. This displays the A record of redhat.com.
- AUTHORITY SECTION: This displays the DNS name server that has the authority to respond to this query. Basically this displays available name servers of redhat.com.
- ADDITIONAL SECTION: This displays the ip address of the name servers listed in the AUTHORITY SECTION.
- Stats section - at the bottom displays a few dig command statistics including how much time it took to execute this query.
+noauthority– Turn off the authority section.
+noadditional– Turn off the additional section.
+nostats– Turn off the stats section.
+noanswer – Turn off the answer section (Of course, you wouldn’t want to turn off the answer section).
;; global options: +cmd