Using .digrc to simplify your DNS troubleshooting
dig, a very useful DNS tool (part of ISC BIND
9) has many opions, if you look
at DIG(1).
As with many command-line tools, it is possible to use a dotrc file, called
.digrc, usually located in the user's home directory (~/.dotrc).
This file just has to contain the flags you want to use, e.g.:
+rrcomments
+nocmd
+noadditional
Just bear that in mind when using it later, as it may "backfire" if you're troubleshooting some DNS weirdness, and end up having an option applied that you did not expect :-)
Edit 2024-09-24
Stéphane Bortzmeyer rightfully pointed out on
Twitter that it's possible to overwrite an option that you have defined in your
.digrc: say you have +dnssec as attribute, if you pass +nodnssec in the
command line, then this will in fact disable the display of the DNSSEC records.
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