Advanced DNS (dig) data info for the DNS records of a host or domain, using samspade.org  freeware dig tool that requests all the DNS records for a host or domain.

Dig - requests all the DNS records for a host or domain

Finger - asks a server about one of it's users

Traceroute - finds the route packets take between you                     and the address

nslookup Whois - find out contact information for the                             current domain or IP address

PING - sends a series of packets to current address to            see if it's alive

A	a host address
NS	an authoritative name server
MD	a mail destination (Obsolete - use MX)
MF	a mail forwarder (Obsolete - use MX)
CNAME	the canonical name for an alias
SOA	marks the start of a zone of authority
MB	a mailbox domain name (EXPERIMENTAL)
MG	a mail group member (EXPERIMENTAL)
MR	a mail rename domain name (EXPERIMENTAL)
NULL	a null RR (EXPERIMENTAL)
WKS	a well known service description
PTR	a domain name pointer
HINFO	host information

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Tools provided by Sam Spade

Dig tool, requests all the DNS records for a host or domain.

Finger tool, asks a server about one of its users.

Traceroute tool, finds the route packets take between you
and the selected address.

PING tool, sends a series of packets to the current address and see if it's alive and how long it takes packets to make the round trip.

Whois tool, to contact network registries to find contact information for the current domain or IP address.

nslookup a DNS whois tool that perform forward and reverse DNS queries for the current address (this will usually give you the IP address of a hostname and the hostname of an IP address).

IP Block a multiple server lookup tool for finding the owner of the block of domain or IP address.

SMTP Relay Verify (checking) tool, to find out whether a SMTP server is insecure--therefore allowing anyone to relay email through it. (Spammers relay email through third party mail server which obfuscasates message headers and harder to find the originator).

Information on this page is derived from: Advanced DNS (dig) Help Topics samspade.org a spam tracking freeware.