Command line manual
SUMMARY
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Traverse the DNS from the root exploring all possible ways of getting to
the final destination domain name. This is the command line interface to
the DNSTraverse module.
USAGE
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Usage: dnstraverse [options] DOMAIN
-v, --[no-]verbose Run verbosely
-d, --[no-]debug Debug mode. Use twice to turn on library debug.
-r, --root-server HOST Root DNS server (default - ask local resolver)
-a, --all-root-servers Find all root servers (default false)
-t, --type TYPE Record type (A, AAAA, SRV, WKS, NS, CNAME, SOA, PTR, HINFO, MINFO, MX, TXT, ANY
--udp-size SIZE UDP packet size (default 2048). Set to 512 to turn off EDNS0.
--allow-tcp Try using tcp if udp truncated (default true)
--always-tcp Always use tcp (default false)
--max-depth DEPTH Maximum traversal depth (default 20)
--retries TIMES Number of 2s retries before timing out (default 2)
--[no-]follow-aaaa Only follow AAAA records for referrals (default false)
--[no-]root-aaaa Look for IPv6 addresses for root servers (default false)
--[no-]show-progress Display progress information (default true)
--[no-]show-resolves Display referral resolutions (default false)
--[no-]show-servers Display list of servers seen (default false)
--[no-]show-versions Display versions of dns servers (default true)
--[no-]show-all-stats Display statistics as we go (default false)
--[no-]show-results Display the results (default true)
--[no-]show-summary-results Display the summary results (default true)
--save-objects
--[no-]fast Fast mode (default true) turn off to be more accurate
-h, --help Show full help
-q, --quiet Supress supplementary information
-V, --version Show version
Example
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dnstraverse www.nic.uk
dnstraverse --fast www.google.com
dnstraverse --fast --show-resolves --udp-size 1000 www.microsoft.com
COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 2009 James Ponder <[email protected]>
Portions Copyright (c) 2003,2004,2005 Roy Arends & Jakob Schlyter
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
There is further information on the command line switches