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  • Thanks. "You asked a.edu-servers.net to find the A records for robot.cs.washington.edu". Do you mean the output of dig @a.edu-servers.net robot.cs.washington.edu are the resource records stored in the database of DNS server a.edu-servers.net about robot.cs.washington.edu? Commented Feb 11, 2019 at 23:01
  • Yes - a.edu-servers.net is not an official authority for anything washington.edu, but it happened to have this information at hand in its cache. Since you did not explicitly specify the record type, dig requested the IN A records. Commented Feb 11, 2019 at 23:20
  • How can I specify all kinds of record types to dig? Commented Feb 11, 2019 at 23:24
  • Specify the record type as ANY. Commented Feb 11, 2019 at 23:36
  • Does the output of dig @a.edu-servers.net robot.cs.washington.edu come from the DNS database stored in DNS server a.edu-servers.net, or from the cache in DNS server a.edu-servers.net? Commented Feb 11, 2019 at 23:43