DNS sunucusuna kendisinde olmayan bir kaydı sorup aynı zamanda sorusunun cevabını da yollaması halinde DNS sunucusunun cacheine istediği kaydı yazdırabilir.

IP adresi bilinmeyen bir siteyi recurse olarak sorgulamazsak.

$ dig 0xf61.com +norecurse
; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Debian <<>> 0xf61.com +norecurse
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 13176
;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;0xf61.com.      IN  A

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sun Jul 29 11:07:03 +03 2018
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 49

IP adresi bilinmeyen bir siteyi recurse olarak sorgularsak.

$ dig 0xf61.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Debian <<>> 0xf61.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58885
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;0xf61.com.      IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
0xf61.com.   3599    IN  A   1.1.1.1

;; Query time: 103 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sun Jul 29 11:07:07 +03 2018
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 65

Tekrardan recurse sorgu olmadan sorarsak.

$ dig 0xf61.com +norecurse

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Debian <<>> 0xf61.com +norecurse
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50059
;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;0xf61.com.      IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
0xf61.com.   3596    IN  A   1.1.1.1

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sun Jul 29 11:07:10 +03 2018
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 65