On Wed, July 9, 2008 10:17 am, Michael Simpson wrote:
Ok, sorry, let me re-phrase.
I want to know on my own server, which of my nameservers replied to the DNS query. In this example 4.2.2.1 is our ISP's upstream DNS server, which is configured in /etc/resolv.conf - so it should technically appear there.
But, let's say I query host1.myserver.co.za - and myserver.co.za is on another server, and has ns1.myserver.co.za, ns2.myserver.co.za, ns3myserver.co.za & ns4.myserver.co.za
So, as far as I know, any one of those can reply (round robbin DNS?), but I would like to know which one replies for this particular dig. Is that possible? I don't want to specify a server to query, I want to find out which of the 4 returns the query. If it's a cached reply, does it mean I won't see it?
At the end of your dig reply you will see the following..
;; Query time: 26 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Wed Jul 9 10:49:40 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 297
That tells you which server answered the query.
HTH