Simon is a former employee of Trinitron XML Inc. He feels he was wrongly terminated and wants to hack into
his former company’s network. Since Simon remembers some of the server names, he attempts to run the axfr
and ixfr commands using DIG. What is Simon trying to accomplish here?
A.
Send DOS commands to crash the DNS servers
B.
Perform DNS poisoning
C.
Perform a zone transfer
D.
Enumerate all the users in the domain
DIG uses the AXFR Response to retrieve your zone information. Learn more about the AXFR Response.
The command dig is a tool for querying DNS nameservers for information about host addresses, mail exchanges, nameservers, and related information.
DNS Zone Transfer Protocol (AXFR) vs. Incremental Zone Transfer (IXFR)