HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

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dig(1M) dig(1M)
(BIND 9.3)
+
[no]additional
Display [do not display] the additional section of a reply. The default is
+additional .
+[no]adflag
Set [do not set] the AD (authenticate data) bit in the query. The AD bit currently has a standard
meaning only in responses and not in queries. The ability to set the bit in the query is provided
for completeness. The default is
+noadflag.
+[no]all
Set [clear] all display flags. The default is
+all.
+[no]answer
Display [do not display] the answer section of a reply. The default is
+answer.
+[no]authority
Display [do not display] the authority section of a reply. The default is
+authority .
+[no]besteffort
Attempt [do not attempt] to display the contents of messages that are malformed. The default is
+nobesteffort .
+bufsize=B
Set the UDP message buffer size advertised using Extended DNS ( EDNS) to B bytes. The max-
imum and minimum sizes of this buffer are 65535 and 0, respectively. If the B size is specified
outside of this range, then the size is adjusted appropriately. The default is 2048.
+[no]cdflag
Set [do not set] the CD (checking disabled) bit in the query, which requests the server not to per-
form DNSSEC validation of responses. The default is
+nocdflag.
+[no]cl Display [do not display] the CLASS when printing the record. The default is
+cl.
+[no]cmd
Display [do not display] an initial comment in the output identifying the version of dig and the
command-line arguments that were specified. The default is
+cmd.
+[no]comments
Display [do not display] comment lines in the output. The default is +comments.
+[no]defname
Deprecated; treated as a synonym for +[no]search. The default is +nodefname
.
+[no]dnssec
Request DNSSEC records be sent by setting the DNSSEC OK bit (DO) in the OPT record in the
additional section of the query. The default is
+nodnssec.
+domain=somename
Set the default domain to somename as if specified in a domain directive in the
/etc/resolv.conf file, and enable search list processing as if the
+search option were
given. If this is not used, the query has to contain a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for for-
ward lookup.
+[no]fail
Do not try [try] the next server if you receive a SERVFAIL. The default is +fail, which is the
reverse of normal stub resolver behavior.
+[no]identify
Show [do not show] the IP address and port number that supplied the answer when short form
answers are requested with the +short query option. The default is +noidentify .
+[no]ignore
Ignore [do not ignore] truncation in UDP responses instead of retrying with TCP. The default is
+noignore (perform TCP retries).
+[no]multiline
Print [do not print] records like the SOA records in a verbose multiline format with human-
readable comments. The default is +nomultiline : print each record on a single line, thereby
facilitating machine parsing of the dig output.
+ndots=D
Set the number of dots (periods) that appear in hostname to D. The default for D is the value
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