telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?
Tim Erlin
listmail at filn.net
Tue Oct 25 07:37:38 PDT 2005
Mohan Singh wrote:
> How would I connect to a nameserver and talk to it so I can know it is
> working? I get as far as connecting to the port, but I don't know how to
> make it send back anything meaningful.
You could use the 'dig' command:
dig @<ip> a yahoo.com
Or you could use 'nmap' with a -sV option, limiting it to port 53/udp or
53/tcp, to actually scan for an application response.
--Tim
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