How to install dig on Windows - Domain Information Groper

Wamuran4512CH · #362

Domain Information Groper, commonly known as dig command is a DNS lookup utility that is popular on Linux. Dig tool is more flexible and better DNS tool than the Windows NSLookup tool.

Unfortunately, it isn’t shipped with Windows 10, but we can get a version of dig that runs on Windows 10 by installing BIND tools.

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https://www.configserverfirewall.com/wi ... d-windows/

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dig ausgeek.net A

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dig @8.8.8.8 ausgeek.website

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dig @9.9.9.9 ausgeek.website MX

Reverse DNS Lookup

We can use the dig command to perform a reverse DNS lookup, that is we can query an IP address and find the domain name that it points to by querying the PTR record. This is done by using the -x option followed by the IP address to query. In the below example we perform a reverse lookup on one public IP address with an ISP that has properly done a PTR.

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dig -x 216.58.220.110