Re: [ProgSoc] DNS lookups

["Patrick Kennedy" <patrick_kennedy@nospam.syd.leoburnett.com.au>]

Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt....what would we do without you? :)

i'll try what you said. I would have thought internic or someone would offer a service like this :(

<<< Matt <matt@nospam.mailtv.com.au>  2/16  5:14p >>>
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 04:58:04PM  1100, Patrick Kennedy wrote:

> does anyone know of a tool to perform queries against registered
> domain names? for example i may want to know all domains that
> include the word "pat".

well you'll need to either do zone transfers or get a complete list of
registered entries for each domain. then grep will do the rest.

> alternatively, can anyone suggest a way of scripting such a tool
> using nslookup etc?

#!/bin/sh

nslookup - $0 < __EOF__
ls -d $1 > $1.axfr
__EOF__



should do the trick off the top of my head. but alot of dns servers
refuse zone transfer requests from servers they dont know.

> any help appreciated

np

	matt

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