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Manipulating DNS Server

For instance, enter dig hackers-arise.com and add the ns option (short for nameserver ). The nameserver for hackers-arise.com is displayed in the ANSWER SECTION of Listing 3-3 .

dig hackers-arise.com ns 

#-- snip -- ;;

# QUESTION SECTION: ;

# hackers-arise.com. IN NS ;;

# ANSWER SECTION:
# hackers-arise.com. 5 IN NS ns7.wixdns.net.
# hackers-arise.com. 5 IN NS ns6.wixdns.net.

# ;;
# ADDITIONAL SECTION:
# ns6.wixdns.net. 5 IN A 216.239.32.100 # -- snip --

ADDITIONAL SECTION includes the DNS server serving host.

Get information about SMTP servers, can use

dig hackers-arise.com mx