List all DNS records in a domain using dig?
Solution 1:
The short answer is to your specific question of listing CNAMEs is that you can't without permission to do zone transfers (see How to list all CNAME records for a given domain?).
That said, you can use dig to list the other records by doing:
dig +nocmd yourdomain.example any +multiline +noall +answer
Solution 2:
A much easier command to remember (and more informative) is:
> dig google.com ANY
Which returns the following:
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> google.com ANY
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31013
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 22, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com. 17 IN A 74.125.225.72
google.com. 17 IN A 74.125.225.73
google.com. 17 IN A 74.125.225.78
google.com. 17 IN A 74.125.225.64
google.com. 17 IN A 74.125.225.65
google.com. 17 IN A 74.125.225.66
google.com. 17 IN A 74.125.225.67
google.com. 17 IN A 74.125.225.68
google.com. 17 IN A 74.125.225.69
google.com. 17 IN A 74.125.225.70
google.com. 17 IN A 74.125.225.71
google.com. 86400 IN NS ns1.google.com.
google.com. 86400 IN NS ns2.google.com.
google.com. 86400 IN NS ns3.google.com.
google.com. 86400 IN NS ns4.google.com.
google.com. 66641 IN SOA ns1.google.com. dns-admin.google.com. 2013082900 7200 1800 1209600 300
google.com. 177 IN MX 40 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
google.com. 177 IN MX 50 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
google.com. 177 IN MX 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
google.com. 177 IN MX 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
google.com. 177 IN MX 30 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
google.com. 287 IN AAAA 2607:f8b0:4009:803::1007
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.google.com. 3924 IN A 216.239.32.10
ns2.google.com. 64508 IN A 216.239.34.10
ns3.google.com. 64508 IN A 216.239.36.10
;; Query time: 77 msec
;; SERVER: 10.6.23.4#53(10.6.23.4)
;; WHEN: Fri Sep 13 14:26:09 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 506
Solution 3:
Try:
dig -tAXFR mycompany.example
This may or may not work. Many DNS servers will deny a DNS Zone Transfer like this. For more information, see How the AXFR protocol works
Solution 4:
You can also use host DNS lookup utility with -l switch:
host -l example.com
Of course you need DNS zone transfer rights for this to work.
Solution 5:
The approach you're trying to use won't work. See this question for more information. Assuming you're the admin (if you're not please discuss this with your admin and read the FAQ before posting again) simply look up the zone file.