Debian – Installing dig on Debian

OK, I worked out what the problem is. When I run 'any' normally it takes its results from my local cache, so it will only display the records that I have already 'seen'.

To bypass this and retrieve all the records correctly I have to direct my query to the authoritative name server for that domain.

Here's the one-liner I'm now using to do it...

dig any stackoverflow.com @`dig +short  SOA stackoverflow.com | cut -d' ' -f1`

Gives (first time)...

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;stackoverflow.com.     IN  ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
stackoverflow.com.  86400   IN  SOA ns1.p19.dynect.net. jatwood.stackoverflow.com. 2009090960 3600 600 604800 60
stackoverflow.com.  86400   IN  NS  ns3.p19.dynect.net.
stackoverflow.com.  86400   IN  NS  ns2.p19.dynect.net.
stackoverflow.com.  86400   IN  NS  ns4.p19.dynect.net.
stackoverflow.com.  86400   IN  NS  ns1.p19.dynect.net.
stackoverflow.com.  432000  IN  A   69.59.196.211
stackoverflow.com.  172800  IN  MX  50 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
stackoverflow.com.  172800  IN  MX  10 aspmx.l.google.com.
stackoverflow.com.  172800  IN  MX  20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
stackoverflow.com.  172800  IN  MX  30 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
stackoverflow.com.  172800  IN  MX  40 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
stackoverflow.com.  172800  IN  TXT "v=spf1 a mx ip4:69.59.196.211 ip4:69.59.196.210 ip4:69.59.196.211 ip4:69.59.196.212 ip4:69.59.196.213 ip4:69.59.196.214 ip4:69.59.196.215 ip4:69.59.196.216 ip4:69.59.196.217 ip4:69.59.196.218 ip4:69.59.196.219 ip4:69.59.196.220 include:cmail1.com ~all"

Which is exactly the kind of output I need.

Enjoy!

I got it working by doing this:

apt-get update
apt-get install console-data

console-data appears to run automatically, so select "choose from full list" -> AZERTY