Re: [SLUG] Which site is just a pointer?

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Aug 06 2009 - 15:17:36 EDT


On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Paul M Foster wrote:

> I've got two sites a customer set up, one of which is where their web
> content actually is, and one merely "points" to the other. I'd like to
> find out which site is the "real" one. There's a command to query the
> DNS records, which will tell which is which. But I can't remember the
> command. Anyone know?

dig?

eben@pc:~$ dig nks.net

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> nks.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46322
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nks.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
nks.net. 1800 IN A 216.134.200.58

;; Query time: 43 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.38#53(192.168.1.38)
;; WHEN: Thu Aug 6 15:16:41 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 41

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