NAME

check_soa - Check a domain's nameservers

SYNOPSIS

check_soa domain

DESCRIPTION

check_soa queries each of a domain's nameservers for the Start of Authority (SOA) record and prints the serial number. Errors are printed for nameservers that couldn't be reached or didn't answer authoritatively.

AUTHOR

The original Bourne Shell and C versions were printed in DNS and BIND by Paul Albitz & Cricket Liu.

This Perl version was written by Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>.

SEE ALSO

perl(1), axfr, check_zone, mresolv, mx, perldig, Net::DNS