tl;dr a restated man page for dig, a dns information tool. It provides the name servers between this computer and the target. A very quick read, ~400 words of his and ~200 words of dig output.
I just needed to do some dns lookups recently and since I never really adapted to dig and don't actually have it on minimal installs, I went straight to DoH (on quad9.)
Memorizing a starting DoH url and the parameters actually seems like a more universal solution to be ready to bootstrap to naming anywhere from now on.
At any rate maybe a good related topic or comparison possibility. I found it interesting that I couldn't find a simple cheat sheet and just had to wing it on the parameter names.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 43.0 ms ] threaddig axfr domain.com @nameserverforthedomain.com
* The nameserver has to be configured to allow zone transfers.
Memorizing a starting DoH url and the parameters actually seems like a more universal solution to be ready to bootstrap to naming anywhere from now on.
At any rate maybe a good related topic or comparison possibility. I found it interesting that I couldn't find a simple cheat sheet and just had to wing it on the parameter names.
In recent years I've dealt with naming so little that I end up relying on getent, which is great until it's time to look into anything DNS specific.