Why doesn't `dig` show records?
Solution 1:
Your query is incorrect, or to put it differently - no, there is no entry for socialimpactportfolio.com
. Dig is telling you about the problem.
The domain works in the browser, because it will helpfully try and add the www.
prefix, and lo and behold:
dig www.socialimpactportfolio.com
...
www.socialimpactportfolio.com. 1783 IN CNAME kochi-9186.herokussl.com.
If you are looking for a tool that will somehow show you the complete zone - I think you're out of luck.
Solution 2:
I just checked, that domain doesn't have an A record, so your dig output is correct. The website is located under www..socialimpactportfolio.com, i.e. www.socialimpactportfolio.com, which again points (two chained CNAMEs) to amazonaws.com.
Solution 3:
Getting NOERROR
and yet no ANSWER SECTION
is telling you that the domain name does exist, but has no records of the specified type. In fact a domain name can exist without having any records at all, and that is different from returning NXDOMAIN
, though in many cases applications will treat them the same.
In both cases a SOA
record is included such that the client will know how long that answer may be cached.
A domain with no records at all can have subdomains, which do have records.
Solution 4:
It says it all in the dig output:
status: NOERROR
QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1
No errors, you did 1 query, there were no answers, the response was from an authoritative nameserver.
If you search for all records for that zone, you will find more information:
PS C:\Users\Administrator> nslookup -type=all socialimpactportfolio.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: fe80::1
Non-authoritative answer:
socialimpactportfolio.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct2.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct3.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com
primary name server = dns1.name-services.com
responsible mail addr = info.name-services.com
serial = 2002050701
refresh = 10800 (3 hours)
retry = 3600 (1 hour)
expire = 604800 (7 days)
default TTL = 3600 (1 hour)
socialimpactportfolio.com nameserver = dns4.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com nameserver = dns3.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com nameserver = dns2.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com nameserver = dns1.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com nameserver = dns5.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com nameserver = dns5.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com nameserver = dns4.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com nameserver = dns3.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com nameserver = dns2.name-services.com
socialimpactportfolio.com nameserver = dns1.name-services.com
dns1.name-services.com internet address = 98.124.192.1
dns2.name-services.com internet address = 98.124.197.1
dns3.name-services.com internet address = 98.124.193.1
dns4.name-services.com internet address = 98.124.194.1
dns5.name-services.com internet address = 98.124.196.1