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diff --git a/docs/adig.1 b/docs/adig.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa5c766 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/adig.1 @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +.TH ADIG "1" "April 2011" "c-ares utilities" +.SH NAME +adig \- print information collected from Domain Name System (DNS) servers +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B adig +[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fINAME\fR... +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +.\" Add any additional description here +.PP +Send queries to DNS servers about \fINAME\fR and print received +information, where \fINAME\fR is a valid DNS name (e.g. www.example.com, +1.2.3.10.in-addr.arpa). +.PP +This utility comes with the \fBc\-ares\fR asynchronous resolver library. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +\fB\-c\fR class +Set the query class. +Possible values for class are +NY, CHAOS, HS, IN (default). +.TP +\fB\-d\fR +Print some extra debugging output. +.TP +\fB\-f\fR flag +Add a flag. +Possible values for flag are +igntc, noaliases, norecurse, primary, stayopen, usevc. +.TP +\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR +Display this help and exit. +.TP +\fB\-T\fR port +Use specified TCP port to connect to DNS server. +.TP +\fB\-s\fR server +Connect to specified DNS server, instead of the system's default one(s). +.TP +\fB\-t\fR type +Query records of specified type. +Possible values for type are +A (default), AAAA, AFSDB, ANY, AXFR, CNAME, GPOS, HINFO, ISDN, KEY, LOC, MAILA, +MAILB, MB, MD, MF, MG, MINFO, MR, MX, NAPTR, NS, NSAP, NSAP_PTR, NULL, +PTR, PX, RP, RT, SIG, SOA, SRV, TXT, WKS, X25, +.TP +\fB\-U\fR port +Use specified UDP port to connect to DNS server. +.TP +\fB\-x\fR +For an IPv4 \fB-t PTR a.b.c.d\fR lookup, query for +.br +\fBd.c.b.a.in-addr.arpa.\fR +This more often gives correct names in the \fBANSWER\fR. +.br +For an IPv6 \fB-t PTR addr\fR lookup, query for \fBa.b.c....z.IP6.ARPA.\fR +.TP +\fB\-xx\fR +As for \fB-x\fR and an IPv6 address, compact \fBa.b.c....z.IP6.ARPA.\fR into a RFC-2673 bit-string. +This compacted \fBbit-string\fR form is not supported by many DNS-servers. + +.SH "REPORTING BUGS" +Report bugs to the c-ares mailing list: +.br +\fBhttps://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/c-ares\fR +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.PP +acountry(1), ahost(1). +.SH COPYRIGHT +This utility is based on code/ideas contained in sofware written by Greg Hudson (ares) +carrying the following notice: +.br +Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. +.br +Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its +documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, +provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that +both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in +supporting documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in +advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software +without specific, written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no +representations about the suitability of this software for any +purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. +.br +No further copyright claims are being made by the author(s) of this utility. |