Re: Question for DNS pros

[Dennis Opacki <dopacki () adotout com>]

Paul,

Public-facing .Com and .Net zone authority could be derived in-part from
the appropriate TLD zone files:

http://www.verisign.com/nds/naming/tld/

The .Org TLD zone file is available through PIR:

http://www.pir.org/registrars/zone_file_access

As Bennett described, though, this won't necessarily provide a complete
picture.

-Dennis

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> Can this be done?
>
> Conditions:
> 1) You know an IP address that is running a DNS server.  (IOW, it responds
> to digs.)
> 2) You do not know the hostname or domain of the host.
> 3) The DNS server does not allow zone transfers.
>
> You want to find out *all* the domains that that DNS server is
> authoritative for.  (Essentially you're trying to find out what's in the
> named.conf file rather than zone file info.)
>
> Has anyone written a tool that can do this?  I thought about the
> possibility of parsing all the registration sites for the Primary and
> Backup NS, but that would take forever.  I imagine you could write a perl
> script that would access the web interfaces, do the queries and return the
> results, but it would run for days...
>
> Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> AVIEN Founding Member
> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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