Less Common Tasks

The following sections describe tricks you’ll probably have to use less often but are still handy to have in your repertoire. Most of these will be helpful when you’re trying to troubleshoot a DNS problem; they’ll enable you to grub around in the messages the resolver sees and mimic a name server querying another name server or transferring zone data.

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