DNS Reconnaissance with NSLOOKUP

NSLOOKUP helps you find other hosts connected to the domain you’re looking at

NSLOOKUP Authoritative Name Servers

NSLOOKUP Start of Authority Records. SOA record stores important information about the zone, such as its primary authoritative name server and the administrator’s email address.

NSLOOKUP: can search for mail servers

NSLOOKUP: Reverse lookup

NSLOOKUP: IPV6 Addresses

NSLOOKUP: Canonical Names

Performing a Zone Transfer with NSLOOKUP

Looking up name servers of zonetransfer.me. Example: nsztm1.digi.ninja

Go into “NSLOOKUP”.

Set the server to the <<NAMESERVER>> of the domain you are looking into

Set the type equal to any. “set type=any”. Grabs ALL the records

“ls -d <<DOMAIN_NAME>>” Prints out a list of all the records associated with the domain and prints it to the text file name “MyZoneTransfer”


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