Re: Fresh (non cached) dig

2009-01-05 Thread John Wobus
I'm imagining you want a way to make dig act like the caching nameserver and do what it would do and show you the answer. dig +trace does something similar to this. There is no nameserver operation that dig could do to tell a caching nameserver to act differently for one query. You could

RE: Fresh (non cached) dig

2009-01-05 Thread Todd Snyder
I've been doing some testing lately on query times. What I did was create a new zone and create a * record within it. Then, from a shell, I do dig @server $RANDOM.test.testdomain.com. For more randomness, you can combine: dig @server $RANDOM.$RANDOM.test.testdomain.com That's how I've worked

Re: Fresh (non cached) dig

2009-01-05 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Stephen Ward wrote: On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:24:04 +, Chris Thompson wrote: On Jan 5 2009, John Wobus wrote: [...] There is no nameserver operation that dig could do to tell a caching

Fresh (non cached) dig

2009-01-02 Thread Stephen Ward
For all my attempts to read the manual on DIG I can't find a way to do something really simple. Is there a way to dig a domain name so even if the results are in cache, it will ignore these and re-read them? It's really from a testing perspective I'm looking at this. I can mash the keyboard

Re: Fresh (non cached) dig

2009-01-02 Thread wes
If you're referring to your local system's cache, you can bypass this by specifying a DNS server for dig to query. use @dns.server.domain or @4.2.2.2(for example) for this. If you're referring to the cache on the server you're trying to query, sorry, that's beyond your control, unless you have