Short: Trace a chain of DNS servers to source Author: Edwin Groothuis Uploader: Carsten Larsen (carsten larsen mail com) Type: comm/tcp Version: 1.9 Architecture: i386-aros --------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT IS DNSTRACER ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dnstracer determines where a given Domain Name Server (DNS) gets its information from, and follows the chain of DNS servers back to the servers which know the data. --------------------------------------------------------------------- EXAMPLE OF USAGE --------------------------------------------------------------------- Show trace of DNS for google.com using A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET > dnstrace google.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 13 root name servers are operated by 12 independent organisations. More information is available from: http://www.root-servers.org/ Google also operates 2 public DNS servers: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/