[ale] Locating the name of public facing machines within a domain

[Chad Huneycutt]

This should help:
http://serverfault.com/questions/138949/list-all-dns-records-in-a-domain-using-dig

- Chad

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Tom Freeman
<tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>
> I almost guarentee that the Subject line should be better phrased...
>
> In any event... I has been long enought since I needed to much with DNS type
> stuff that if I ever knew the answer, I have forgotten that I knew. I
> need/want to locate _all_ of the public internet facing machine names of my
> employer in order to locate the correct URL address for what I need to do.
> (Yes - asking support is feasable, but they are over loaded and I know that
> the machine name is related to the service I want)
>
> An example might help (I hope so at least). Say I want to get into the old
> Moodle system (which is being retired, but isn't shut down quite yet). Is it
> moo1.myschool.edu, moodle1.myschool.edu, oldmoo.myschool.edu or some other
> variant? I don't need/want the IP addresses, but the machine names.
>
> Support people at work are sadly overloaded, so response times are rising at
> the moment. I'd like to be able to dig my way out of this challenge.
>
> So far - I haven't asked the Google a correctly formed question to return
> anything semi-useful in the first 100 + responses. I have looked at the dig
> man page, and that seems like it should work, but haven't managed to wrap my
> head around things yet.
>
> Thankyou one and all for the use of your bandwidth!
>
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Chad M. Huneycutt