dig cheat sheet

dig_cs.sh

#Dig HowTo [https://www.madboa.com/geek/dig/]

# 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

#More obscurely, for the present anyway, you can also poll for 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. The reality of life on the Internet, however, is that very few domains allow unrestricted transfers these days.

dig yourdomain.com AXFR