Dig stands for domain information groper and is included with most standard Linux distributions. Dig can be used to query a DNS server for various records such as IP address lookup for an Domain name, finding email and name servers for a domian, reverse DNS lookups, DNS zone transfers etc. Dig is definitely the swiss knife for a DNS hacker.
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