dig has nothing to do with hosts. It uses bind and internet servers for DNS.
hosts is the file lookup method in /etc/resolv.conf. This has nothing
to do with BIND
or dig.
$ dig @8.8.8.8 <somesite.com>
man dig
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:38 PM, ashwin kesavan <ashwin.chn at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I see a strange dns problem. When i do a dig <somesite.com> it resolves
to a ip that i own. This ip is in USA and i am doing dig from chennai. My
ISP and this USA hosting providers have no known relation. Then how is
the dns name is able to resolve to my hosted ip ? Strange thing is online
dns lookup tools don't resolve to this IP. Why does my dig is able to
resolve while online tools aren't ? I dont have any hosts entry.
with regards,
ashwin
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