linux/unix admin question

[Matt Shields]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Stephen Adler <adler-wRvlPVLobi1/31tCrMuHxg at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> Registering a domain name is probably the wrong term. I asked the IT
> guys to add an entry into the network DNS server and it was over a year
> a go and I can't remember what the name I asked them to associate with
> my IP address. And I can remember the ip address. The details are
> this... I have a kvm to ip switch that I use to manage a remote server.
> Most of the time I just ssh into the server and do my bit to sysadmin
> it. But I need to do something which require my accessing the console
> through the kvm to ip switch. So, I can't remember the ip address or
> name of the switch... it was over a year a go that I set it up...
> Anyway, I've actually fixed my problem. cycling the power on the kvm to
> ip has it e-mail me the ip address and from there I can do a reverse
> lookup....
>
> as for the nslookup question, I think trying to get a domain to dump its
> list of entries is prohibited for security reasons. I used nslookup on a
> window system which has the ls command implemented and I got some kind
> of error message saying that it wouldn't let me get the listing.
> Anyway... maybe I am intoxicated... :)
>
> Cheers. Steve.
>
> Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> > On 10/05/2010 07:59 AM, Stephen Adler wrote:
> >
> >> Guys,
> >>
> >> I registered a domain name where I work and I forgot the freek'en domain
> >> name. I know it starts with mic. Is there a way to query a DNS server
> >> and get it to dump out all its records so that I can then do a search
> >> for anything which starts with mic? the ls command withing nslookup
> >> looks to not be implemented...
> >>
> >> Cheers and thanks in advance. Steve.
> >>
> >
> > Part of me thinks this is a trick question.  They other part thinks you
> > wrote this while intoxicated.
> >
> > - Eric C.  the one who is often intoxicated.
> >
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nslookup you'd need to know the domain, or if the DNS admin setup reverse
DNS properly you could do "dig -x my.ip.add.ress" but chances are reverse
DNS wasn't done.

But since you asked him to add it to DNS, can he search through the DNS
zones on the server?