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Yes, it's horrible. It helps if you know the actual syntax used in zone files, and yes, it's the lack of an answer section. Alternatively use the short format
by selcuka 4y ago
Yes, it's horrible. It helps if you know the actual syntax used in zone files, and yes, it's the lack of an answer section.
Alternatively use the short format as suggested by another comment:
$ dig a www.readlang.com +short
readlang.com.
139.144.234.197
Although now it's a bit too short and you can't see the record types (CNAME, A). Sigh.
- chx 4y agoWhen I dig my personal domain name, I get 19 lines of output of which 1 comes from the zone file and contains the actual answer. The rest is mystery meat. I mean, sure I can decipher that "rcvd" stands for "received" but if I have my timeline correct there never was a time when such character count mattered and dig existed.