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

[Tom Freeman]

Ok - short result as noted in the web link, and the other responses (thank 
you all!), if authoritative server is set up to allow the AXFR transfer, 
this is easy with dig. Otherwise, you are pretty much SOL, on a very 
sincere level.

As for trying the various posibilities - already done that and failed. 
Worth a try obviously.

Going in with nmap was suggested as possible on the web page, but I 
_really_ don't want my sysadmins thinking I'm trying to attack them! In 
fact, I don't want to find out whether or not they are paying good enough 
attention to notice such.

Guess I'll need to wait on support then...

To one and all - thank you!

On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Chad Huneycutt wrote:

> This should help:
> http://serverfault.com/questions/138949/list-all-dns-records-in-a-domain-using-dig
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> - Chad
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> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Tom Freeman
> <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
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>> 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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