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Bypassing the DNS hierarchy with the dig command

Attila Molnar on January 11, 2018

Topics Temporarily switching domain name servers (NS from now). Tracing domain name resolutions. Finding a way to interrogate NS direct...
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Jack Fletcher

Dig is fantastic and I use it every day.

If you're on Windows and have Chocolatey, you can install it with: choco install bind-toolsonly

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Attila Molnar

Thank you, I forgot about the installation part. I'll update the post.

You can also use cygwin or Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10, still your suggestion would be most convenient for the majority of Windows users.

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NslookupTool

DiG GUI - dig command web interface
diggui.com/