On 7/10/08, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: <snip> > Try dig +trace emcali.net > It should show all servers "your" query goes through. Scott: Please note that I added ".co" (for Colombia) emcali.net.co Is this showing which DNS Servers my DNS requests use, or, which DNS Servers serve their web site? Also note that when I tried "dig +trace" or "dig trace" I got very abbreviated answers. Probably I don't have the syntax correct. Question: Is there another command I can use, to another web site (irs.gov or something) that shows which DNS Servers I am using, to get to that web site? My wife is complaining, again, as I write this, so getting our own Caching DNS Server, ASAP, has become a priority. When Colombian women are mad... :-) TIA, Lanny P.S. The first time I tried to send this email, I ended up at opendns.com instead of getting a response from Gmail. [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ dig emcali.net.co ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> emcali.net.co ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24430 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;emcali.net.co. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: emcali.net.co. 10800 IN A 200.29.96.38 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: emcali.net.co. 10800 IN NS dns1.emcali.net.co. emcali.net.co. 10800 IN NS dns2.emcali.net.co. emcali.net.co. 10800 IN NS dns3.emcali.net.co. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: dns1.emcali.net.co. 10800 IN A 200.29.96.22 dns2.emcali.net.co. 10800 IN A 200.29.96.27 dns3.emcali.net.co. 10800 IN A 200.29.104.22 ;; Query time: 314 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.10.1#53(192.168.10.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Jul 10 16:12:53 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 152 [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ dig trace emcali.net.co ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 30304 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;trace. IN A ;; Query time: 2 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.10.1#53(192.168.10.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Jul 10 16:20:28 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 23 ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> trace emcali.net.co ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24706 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;emcali.net.co. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: emcali.net.co. 10346 IN A 200.29.96.38 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.10.1#53(192.168.10.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Jul 10 16:20:28 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 47 [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ dig +trace emcali.net.co ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> +trace emcali.net.co ;; global options: printcmd . 0 IN A 192.168.1.1 ;; Received 33 bytes from 192.168.10.1#53(192.168.10.1) in 3 ms [lanny at dell2400 ~]$