SYNOPSIS

       posask [@server[#port]] [option1=value1 ...] [qname] [qtype]

DESCRIPTION

       Posask  is  a  tool  to  query  Domain Name Servers. Similar to dig and
       askmara, this tool can  interactively  query  any  RFC-compliant  name-
       server.  Posask supports all RR types Posadis supports, as well as zone
       transfers.

       The settings on the command line are:

       @[server][#port] - Specify the server to query. By default, the  system
       resolver (the resolver that is usually used to look up domain names) is
       used. If you give no port, port 53 will be used; if you  don't  specify
       an  IP  number  (e.g. @3000), the given port at localhost will be used.
       You can also give an IPv6 number here, if your  operating  system  sup-
       ports that.

       qname - The domain name to query. If you don't specify one, Posask will
       do a query for {.;NS} instead. If you want to do  reverse-mapping,  you
       can use the special dot notation for reverse-mapping domain names, e.g.
       ".192.168.1.1" is equivalent to "1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa".

       qtype - The query type. Any RR type supported by Posadis (e.g.  a,  mx,
       soa),  any  for  all  RR  types,  axfr for a complete zone transfer, or
       ixfr/<serial> for an incremental zone transfer. If you don't specify  a
       query  type,  Posask  will default to A for normal domain names, and to
       PTR  for  reverse-mapping  domain  names,   such   as   subdomains   of
       in-addr.arpa.

       See  the OPTIONS section for available options. You can specify them on
       the command line using option=value

OPTIONS

       rd - Specifies whether we want the DNS server to do recursion.

       use_tcp - Specifies whether to use TCP. By default,  Posadis  uses  TCP
       for IXFR and AXFR, and UDP for normal queries.

       tries  -  Specifies  the  number  of  times  to  retry  the query (3 by
       default).

       timeout - Specifies the time in seconds to wait for an answer  (5  sec-
       onds by default). Note that retries of queries happen within this time-
       out range, so this timeout value is actually the maximum time you  will
       wait until you get an answer to your query.

AUTHORS

       Meilof Veeningen <meilof@users.sourceforge.net>

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