February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
7h 58m
English
The NS record of a domain contains the IP addresses of the name servers that are authoritative for that domain. Retrieving an NS record is simple: we just run a query much like before, but now we include the -type switch to tell the utility to return only NS records:
nslookup -type=ns microsoft.com
The response will resemble the following:
Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8
Here is the non-authoritative answer:
website.com nameserver = ns3.web.net website.com nameserver = ns4.web.net website.com nameserver = ns1.web.net website.com nameserver = ns2.web.net
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