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Frank's dig cheat sheet
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dig.md 
# force recursion back to root nameservers (helpful for bypassing caches)
dig www.cloudflare.com A +trace

# get the address(es) for yahoo.com
dig yahoo.com A +noall +answer

# get a list of yahoo's mail servers
dig yahoo.com MX +noall +answer

# get a list of DNS servers authoritative for yahoo.com
dig yahoo.com NS +noall +answer

# get all of the above
dig yahoo.com ANY +noall +answer

# get a host’s IPv6 address using the AAAA option.

dig www.isc.org AAAA +short

#If the domain you want to query allows DNS transfers, you can get those, too.
dig yourdomain.com AXFR
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