On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 05:25:58PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi all > > If I do a "dig mydomain.co.za" from a Linux server, how do I know which DNS > nameserver returns the queries? > > I seem to have a faulty DNS server, but can't see which one, so I want to > find out which nameserver (if there's 4 - ns1.myserver, ns2.myserver, > ns3.myserver & ns4.myserver) returns the queries? Towards the end of the output there should be a ;; SERVER: line that will tell you. But you should probably just force the query to go to each of your listed servers and figure out which one is bad that way: dig @ns1.myserver query dig @ns2.myserver query etc Ray