adig(1) General Commands Manual adig(1)
NAME
adig - print information collected from Domain Name System (DNS)
servers
SYNOPSIS
adig [OPTION]... NAME...
DESCRIPTION
Send queries to DNS servers about NAME and print received information,
where NAME is a valid DNS name (e.g. www.example.com, 1.2.3.10.in-
addr.arpa).
This utility comes with the c-ares asynchronous resolver library.
OPTIONS
-c class
Set the query class. Possible values for class are ANY, CHAOS,
HS and IN (default).
-d Print some extra debugging output.
-f flag
Add a behavior control flag. Possible values for flag are
igntc - ignore query truncation, return answer as-is
instead of retrying
via tcp.
noaliases - don't honor the HOSTALIASES environment variable,
norecurse - don't query upstream servers recursively,
primary - use the first server,
stayopen - don't close the communication sockets, and
usevc - always use TCP.
-h, -? Display this help and exit.
-s server
Connect to specified DNS server, instead of the system's default
one(s). Servers are tried in round-robin, if the previous one
failed.
-t type
Query records of specified type. Possible values for type are A
(default), AAAA, ANY, AXFR, CNAME, HINFO, MX, NAPTR, NS, PTR,
SOA, SRV, TXT, URI, CAA, SVCB, and HTTPS.
-T port
Connect to the specified TCP port of DNS server.
-U port
Connect to the specified UDP port of DNS server.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to the c-ares mailing list:
https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/c-ares
SEE ALSO
acountry(1), ahost(1).
c-ares utilities April 2011 adig(1)
c-ares 1.27.0 - Generated Fri Feb 23 05:51:17 CST 2024