{"id":3337,"date":"2015-08-25T17:48:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ed.gs\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2015-08-25T17:48:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:48:33","slug":"digdns-record-fetching-with-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ed.gs\/2015\/08\/25\/digdns-record-fetching-with-php\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig\/DNS Record Fetching With PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started a new job recently as a Linux Systems Administrator for Webanywhere Ltd. A major part of my new role is automation, so there may be a fair few posts regarding automation of Linux server tasks coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently transferring thousands of domains between two different providers and to aid things I&#8217;ve had to create a script to get certain DNS records via the &#8216;dig&#8217; command, I know PHP fairly well so it was easier to write a script in that to speed up the process. 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