dig l.root-servers.net

BASH.WS# dig l.root-servers.net run

_whois
_host
_dig
_nslookup
_ping
_traceroute
_geoiplookup

Show command arguments

~~Whois arguments and description~~

WHOIS searches Whois servers for the object (domain or IP). The special WHOIS protocol is used for querying the Whois servers. See RFC 3912 for the protocol specification. This command is available on all linux systems and has a lot of arguments. The most important argument is host address. See the arguments decription below.

Host

Requierd argument, can be an IP or domain name.

~~Geoiplookup arguments and description~~

GEOIPLOOKUP lets you detect the location of a host. A preparsed WHOIS database is used for detecting the location of IP or domain. There are a lot of independent geoip databases in the Internet, so the same host can have different locations in those databases. GEOIPLOOKUP is not a built-in Linux command. The command has only one argument - host address.

Host

Requierd argument, can be an IP address only

Cached: 2021.08.02 20:32:56/ 1 month 17 days ago
; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-P2-RedHat-9.11.4-26.P2.el7_9.4 <<>> l.root-servers.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 26898
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;l.root-servers.net.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
l.root-servers.net.	254365	IN	A	199.7.83.42

;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Mon Aug 02 20:32:56 CEST 2021
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 63