Users report that the intranet site intranet.corp.local cannot be reached from their workstations. From a troubleshooting laptop, you enter the command:
dig @10.10.1.5 intranet.corp.local A
The output returns an ANSWER section but no warning or error messages. To obtain this information, which type of service is the dig utility querying on address 10.10.1.5?
The dig utility contacts a DNS server and requests the specified resource record. In the scenario, the @10.10.1.5 option directs dig to query the DNS service at that IP. The server responds with the ANSWER, AUTHORITY, and ADDITIONAL sections that list matching DNS records and associated metadata. DHCP, NIS, and SMTP servers do not store authoritative DNS information, so dig would not query them for name resolution.
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