It may be that this has been added to dig since the question was asked, but for completeness this can be accomplished through the following query: dig hostname A hostname AAAA +short Source: http://linux.die.net/man/1/dig — under the ‘Multiple Queries’ section
The timeout value is per try so setting a +time=5 would result in a 15 seconds delay as the default for +tries is 3. If you set +tries=1 then your command will timeout in 5 seconds e.g. time dig +time=5 @hii.com hello.me ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5_7.1 <<>> +time=5 @hii.com hello.me ; (1 server found) ;; … Read more
dig is a troubleshooting tool, so it sends DNS queries and receives DNS answers and as Andreas said the answer is both CNAME and A records, as designed. Your wish is to give “Just the IP, ma’am.”, so that is not a DNS troubleshooting, it is “just” the resolution, for which dig is too much. … Read more
I am not sure why you are getting comments in the output. That is the correct set of options for the behaviour you want. Here are the same options with the same version of dig: $ dig -version DiG 9.7.3 $ dig +noall +answer google.de google.de. 55 IN A 173.194.44.216 google.de. 55 IN A 173.194.44.223 … Read more