June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
8h 28m
English
Dig can be used to query for and map out the associated record types for A, MX, NS, SOA, or other records quickly and easily. The default is A records, which indicate the domain's main IPv4 addresses, but you may only want to locate the associated name servers (NS records), for instance, to attempt MITM attacks. MX records and pointers to the mail servers on a domain can be useful in crafting phishing campaigns to target users. If we want to see all of the record types associated with a domain, we could use the ANY keyword:
dig packtpub.com ANY

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