> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Anand Buddhdev > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 9:28 AM > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Hint for nslookup wanted ... > > On 11/10/16 15:23, Richard Mann wrote: > > > Did your google break? > > > > For just IPv6 > > nslookup -type=AAAA www.example.com > > > > For all records > > nslookup -type=any www.example.com > > This is bad advice, because in DNS, ANY != ALL As I said: For all records. Reading comprehension can be important. > > If you query with qtype=any, and you ask a caching resolver, then it > will return to you all the records that are in its cache at that time, > which may or may not include the records you want. > > In order to definitively get the A as well as the AAAA records, one > needs to ask for them specifically: > > nslookup -type=AAAA www.example.com > nslookup -type=A www.example.com > > This makes a cache explicitly look up those types of records if it > doesn't already have them. > > Regards, > Anand > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos