---
name: "dns_tree"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "dns-browse"
version: "1.9-8.3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dns_tree"
---

# dns\_tree(1)

command-line frontend to dig

## NAME

dns\_tree — command-line frontend to dig

## SYNOPSIS

**dns\_tree** \[**-f**\]  \[**-v**\]  \[**-d**\]  \[**-t** *TYPE\]  \[***-m** *MATCH\]* **DNS\_domain**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **dns\_tree** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.

**dns\_tree** is a program that works as a front-end  to **dig**. Given a specific domain  **dns\_tree** will make several **dig**     invocations to fetch a zone and it will format the output in in a somewhat  sensible hierarchical style (a tree).

Information extracted from the DNS relies on being possible  to fetch a zone through a zone transfer. If the DNS servers for the  requested domain do not allow file transfers **dns\_tree**     will not be able to obtain information from the zone.

All data obtain is cached in ~/.DNS\_BROWSE with an approximation of  the usual DNS caching rules.  Remove all files in that directory to  prematurely flush the cache.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

- **-t** *TYPE*

  Show only records of *TYPE*. This  argument can be repeated to indicate multiple types. Use the  "all" type to print all the known types.

- **-m** *MATCH*

  Show only records in which the first component matches the  PERL regexpt *MATCH*.

- **-h**

  Show summary of options.

- **-v**

  Enable verbose mode. All DNS requests are printed in the   standard error.

- **-d**

  Enable debug output. Presents internal information of the  program

- **-f**

  Override warnings (force).

## SEE ALSO

dig (1), dns\_browse (1), perlrequick (1).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino jfs@debian.org for  the **Debian** system (and may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any  later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.